![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The original version featured articles on everything from civil rights campaigns to presidential candidates - alongside centerfolds, of course - when the Library of Congress began funding production of a Braille edition. Playboy, which had the budget and provocative editorial instincts to showcase big names in journalism, was a major source of contemporary information in the 1970s. And though the photo content was lost in translation, the edition they received had curves in all the right places - because it was written in Braille.īefore the blind and visually impaired had screen readers to dictate the contents of their smartphones, many would run their hands over the bumpy patterns of a Braille text to read the latest news or profile on a cultural icon. Unlike most of Playboy’s readers in the 1970s, one select group was definitely reading it for the articles: the magazine’s blind subscribers.
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