#also I haven’t used a stylus in years and would have to learn everything backwards again

[runawaymarbles]

Braille book experiment no. 2: the problem with using, as one’s practice text, a work in which the author regularly shortens words like “with” and “the” to “wif” and “da” is that due to Braille’s contractions of common word and letter groupings, this actually makes the text longer.

but being able to fit 17 characters to a row with 19 rows a page that puts me at 329 characters per page, including spaces. If we guesstimate a 5k text being at about 30,000 letters including spaces, that would make 5k about a 90 page book— keeping in mind that pages cannot be double sided and are thicker than print pages because the paper is heavier and also because there are raised dots on one side.

If I cut a line I could add page numbers to the bottom, but that would put me down to 312 characters per page. Or I could manually add page numbers to the corner with a stylus. But then I’d have to buy a stylus 🤔

(Image description: two Braille pages containing most of the first paragraph of My Immortal)