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Scanning a Braille Playboy (2011)
- Jaruzel 6y agoPreviously, on Hacker News... * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3230988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3230988 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20041139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20041139
- ggm 6y agoThe 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.
- kristopolous 6y agoAm 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)
- notRobot 6y agoIt's in the last paragraph: http://www.archive.org/details/playboybraile00nlsu http://www.archive.org/details/playboybraile00nlsu
- kristopolous 6y agoRight but I can't read braille. The content is still a mystery
- scubbo 6y ago> 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...
- djmips 6y agoI guess you do read it for the articles.
- DrAwdeOccarim 6y agoLove the scene in Sneakers where Whistler is reading the Braille Playboy. As a youth, I always thought this was so funny.
- jonstewart 6y agoI just rewatched Sneakers this weekend for the first time in many years, and noticed this detail.
- iancmceachern 6y agoLove that movie!
- innocentoldguy 6y agoI 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.
- userbinator 6y agoBraille seems to be very machine-readable, in that "OCR" would easily be able to pick up the 6-dot cells, much like a barcode.
- Isamu 6y agoCongress 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.
- Ruthalas 6y agoHe 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?
- Johnythree 6y agoBraille 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.
- kwonkicker 6y agoYeah i still dont get it.youd still use same amount of pages. So whats the point of doing it both sides, risking false imprints?
- sgtnoodle 6y agoIt'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.