Scanning a Braille Playboy (2011)

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)

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

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?

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.