Prior to Louis Braille’s development of “Braille,” the 6-dot reading system for the blind, in 1824, reading by the blind was laborious for those educated to finger-read by feeling embossed Roman alphabet letters. This was time consuming and cumbersome and books made in this method were large and heavy… Read more of “The Life of Louis Braille,” by Doris Belusic http://www.cfb.ca/the-life-of-louis-braille