I once ordered a braille copy of a book, thinking I'd keep it on the shelf and maybe dip into it now and then, and pick up some braille. The non-braille copy of

I once ordered a braille copy of a book, thinking I'd keep it on the shelf and maybe dip into it now and then, and pick up some braille. The non-braille copy of the book, which I already owned, was pretty small, not even an inch thick. What arrived was a box half as tall as me, lugged up my driveway by a delivery driver for whom I feel bad to this day. Inside the box were 8 huge, oversized binders containing the text of the book. My wife gave me a very serious look and said, "we don't have room for this in our house." Yeah. That was quite an experience.