Tactile Reading Quotes

I'd love to do a book with scratch n' sniff pages and pieces of string and plastic attached to the pages, you know?

I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.

E-readers are uninspired. They're slabs of plastic with fiddly controls and display a badly-formatted, typographically impoverished rendering of a paper book. That's not the electronic book I want. I want a gorgeous physical object, with paper pages, that can transform into any story I choose, perfectly presented on the page.

Of course I read Braille, yes.

I like to smell a book before I start it. I fold over the pages, write comments in the margins, leave it on the bed next to my pillow when I fall asleep.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?

Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for example, or high-quality prose. They're used to reading magazines and newspapers, which are only of the mind, but not of the body.

Blind eyes cannot read.

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.

If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.

How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

Even on the iPad or the Kindle, when reading a book, you're rewarded for pressing a button - it's almost as if it were a Pavlovian thing. There's a little action that happens. And that there's always a little pump of adrenaline that happens. But that pump is different when you're lifting a page as if it was a curtain in a theater to show you another thing.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.