We are pleased to announce that our braille SD card is now available to buy. The card contains thousands of books converted from our braille library, including hymn collections and even the latest edition of the NIV Bible.
It is designed to slot into an electronic braille display – a compact, portable device that converts digital text into tactile braille. These devices are growing ever more popular – they display one or a few lines of braille at a time using pins which can be raised or lowered by mechanical means and thus the braille can be endlessly advanced. In this way a whole book can be read on the device with the user pressing a button to scroll to the next line.
Sheila Armstrong, Torch trustee, writes: “Some people have suggested that braille’s dying out, as they can’t imagine heaving all those heavy volumes around – the forty-three volumes of the Bible, for instance. But what if you could have thousands of braille books on something the size of a postage stamp or even smaller? Well, it’s now possible, thanks to little SD cards which can be popped into electronic braille readers. Up comes the book you’ve selected and if you finish it, there are many, many more where that one came from. I have a lot of time for St John’s comment about there not being enough space in the whole world if all the books had been written about our Lord Jesus’ time on earth. If I owned all the braille books you can fit on an SD card, the house would definitely not be big enough to contain them!”
To purchase the SD card at a cost of £10, please call the Client Services team on 01858 438260 or email [email protected].
We hope that this project will reach braille users across the UK, enabling access to so many wonderful Christian resources at no more than the press of a button.