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On a podcast long, long ago, @Ranger1138 @JamiePauls and I discussed how braille books have a very particular smell. I've just smelled the closest thing to it with a sample of Glossier You. This is one of those fragrances marketed as "your skin but better" and supposedly smells different on everyone, but for me, I was instantly transported to a high school summer in the TSBVI library browsing shelves on shelves of hardback braille. Reading from a display is great, but it's just not the same as feeling the weight of a book in your hands, turning its pages and knowing from the crispness of the braille whether it was a well-loved favorite or your own fingers were the first to find it.
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Sean Randall

I love the smell, but I must have missed out on at least one novel every time we went on vacation because I could only pack a volume or 2 to travel with me.
Our library let you order specific volumes and even paid the international postage, but of course they usually turned up out of sequence or not at all, then you couldn't get them properly when you got home.

I also never forget the wave of disappointment of walking into the school library, to see row upon row of colourful, cheery texts, each one a complete story unto itself, to find I had a whole 2 shelves of my own at the very back! But the 42 plain volumes were dictionaries and religious texts. Taking up as much room as more than a couple hundred stories my sighted peers had access to. That was a gut punch.

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Robin Frost

@mcourcel @DavidGoldfield You just sent me 45 years back in time. Oh yes they did and I can't remember which was which between Maxell and TDK and Memorex but one brand used to have a raised print letter A on one side and a print letter B on the other. While the other brand had one raised dot on the one side and 2 raised dots on the other. It felt so much like #Braille letters A and B. I loved it. And their cases felt differently too so you could recognize which brand it was by the feel of the case too.
#braille @David Goldfield @Martin from Toronto
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