Sunday, January 7, 2007

Playboy in braille

The braille version of Hugh Hefner's signature mag is not published by Playboy Enterprises. It's published by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, a division of the Library of Congress.
NLS has published a braille "Playboy" since 1970. Frank Cylke, the director, said the publication has 500 regular readers.
A little research reveals that the braille "Playboy" does not offer breasts or buttocks. It restricts itself to words.
NLS publishes 40 other magazines in braille, including "National Geographic," "Boys' Life," "Atlantic Monthly," "Ladies' Home Journal," "Ebony," "Consumer Reports," "U.S. News and World Report" and "Rolling Stone," Frank said. The agency distributed 24 million books and magazines last year, making it the largest such service for the blind in the world.

[Source: acb]

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