Am I missing something or is there no link to the literature in conventional visible readable form?

I'm curious what the content is. Playboy did a lot of respectable literature along with scandalous content (for instance, Roald Dahl, Joseph Heller, Ian Fleming, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Jack Kerouac, Arthur C Clark, Ray Bradbury all had stories in Playboy... The "I have it for the articles" joke was potentially the real deal for some)

It's in the last paragraph: http://www.archive.org/details/playboybraile00nlsu

Right but I can't read braille. The content is still a mystery

> respectable literature along with scandalous content (for instance, Roald Dahl

If you've never heard of "My Uncle Oswald", you're in for a surprise...

Love the scene in Sneakers where Whistler is reading the Braille Playboy. As a youth, I always thought this was so funny.

I just rewatched Sneakers this weekend for the first time in many years, and noticed this detail.

Love that movie!

I used to work for the Library of Congress in one of their Multi-state Centers for the blind. Blind people are the only audience in the world who truly read Playboy for the articles.

I guess you do read it for the articles.

The last comment says it all: factually corrects an mp3 nit and points out this breaches NLS eula which is why Braille playboy can exist in the first place.

Braille seems to be very machine-readable, in that "OCR" would easily be able to pick up the 6-dot cells, much like a barcode.

Previously, on Hacker News...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3230988

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20041139

He mentions that the braille can be printed on both sides, and implies the technique can be deduced from the scan, but I cannot see how it's done. (Perhaps the images are too small on my mobile device?)

Can someone shed light on how that works?

Braille uses raised dots which are pressed through from the reverse side, so you could have raised dots on both sides, as long as the dots are offset.

A blind person can only feel the dots on one side, but it would be possible to decode both sets visually.

It's conceivable that the dots could also be just raised blobs, which would not be evident on the reverse side.

Yeah i still dont get it.youd still use same amount of pages. So whats the point of doing it both sides, risking false imprints?

It's half the amount of paper because both sides of each sheet is used. With Braille on only one side, you only get one page per sheet instead of two pages per sheet.

Congress carved out an exception to copyright laws for the benefit of the visually impaired. Braille and books on tape for the blind or impaired can be prepared without the normal restrictions but of course the consumers have to be legit.