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The Country of the Blind

99% Invisible

CHAPTER

The Future of Blind Reading

With an optophone, you wouldn't need to create special books for the blind at all. Most training a blind person could read an ink print book using one of these devices. Incredibly, some blind people actually learned how to read this way. Harvey reads using more of his body, more of his senses than perhaps anyone else on the planet.

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