learn to read Braille

I am still working on learning to read braille books (Grade 1-2).
I find it an entirely new world that I enjoy very much. I have several serious interests and hobbies but reading braille even though it may elementary to some, is one that takes great discipline
and daily dedicated skill. At the moment, I am online attemting to
find a Simulator/or a handpocket device for writing braille but no luck yet. Everything is too expensive but I will keep looking.

Laya, Canada

wish to learn braille before i go blind.

I’d like to learn to read Braille as an exercise for my mind. My eyes are relatively good (I have a slightly lazy eye, but otherwise I see fine). I was initially inspired by an xkcd comic (http://xkcd.com/315/), which by the way is an excelent comic for software developers, mathematicians, and physicists.

Anyway to learn, I ordered the book “Braille for the Sighted”, a small slate to practice writing (and to copy more complicated rules and exaples from online resources), and a copy of “Through the Looking Glass” in Braille. If I can read “Through the Looking Glass”, then I will have succeeded.

so far i found this website where i could print off a page of the braille alphabet. i’m going to put glue spots on top of the dots, wait for them to dry, and then read the bumps.. i hope to get a little bit better. i alread know how to do the alphabet and the pledge of alligence in braille.. hopefull this will help me understand more people.