[Faith-Talk] Electronic Searchable Braille Bible

[Linda Mentink]

Judy,

I still use a Millennium 20, especially when formatting things and proofreading and editing sermons by Charles Haddon Spurgeon to be put out as pamphlets for our congregation. The new technology just doesn't cut it where editing is concerned, especially when one wants to globally find and replace carriage returns; the carriage return (or line break) key is also enter, so they can't be found and replaced.

For the Apex, I put dots 4-6 before each book name. I look for that first, then the chapter number and 1 for the verse, then the verse number if it's not one. For chapter 1 I look for number-sign dot 1 number-sign. I still have the original floppies, too!

I wish there was just a simple notetaker just for editing and reading files. Units are much more complicated now, and take a lot more keystrokes to go between files, which I don't have time to do in church. I'm going to use my Apex until I can't because either the dots are all weak or the thing dies. Then I'll go back to the Millennium, unless that dies too—should the Lord tarry. If I could figure out the formatting thing, I'd purchase a Brailliant 40. The longer display, the better I like it, partly because I need to read and play music parts for my school music classes. But that's another rabbit trail! LOL!

I'm glad to have all the hymnals, song words and my Bible along with me wherever I go!

Blessings,

Linda


On Aug 14, 2024 10:23 AM, Judy Jones via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Linda!  What do you know, I have that same Blazie KJV!  I still have the floppies it came on.  The file has gone through many makeovers.
>
> I used my Braille Lite to manipulate the carriage returns, and that item is still rockin along.  I keep it plugged in, but rarely use it.
>
> Judy
>
> “Embrace each day with His mercies and blessings.”
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Faith-Talk <faith-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Linda Mentink via Faith-Talk
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 5:25 AM
> To: bruce&joy breslauer via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Linda Mentink <lmentink7360 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Faith-Talk] Electronic Searchable Braille Bible
>
> Hi Joy,
>
> This subject came up the other day, but I don't remember all the answers.
>
> I said to check BARD and Optasia Ministries.
>
> I use the KJV in my BrailleNote Apex. It started out as files from Blazie Engineering when I had a Braille Lite 40. It is now combined into one file. I changed words like God, Jesus, Savior, faith, glory, grace, holy, saith, and unto to shorter forms like dot 5 g, dot 5 j, svr, fth, gl, gr, hl, sth, and dots 4-5-6 u to save space. However, it does not read well in newer products because the carriage returns are not erased, but ignored. I'm trying to figure out if I can fix this because my Apex is living on borrowed time, but I haven't been able to solve the problem. But it works great in the Apex! LOL!
>
> Blessings,
>
> Linda
>
> On Aug 14, 2024 4:10 AM, bruce&joy breslauer via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, everyone. 
> >
> > Does anyone know where to obtain an electronic copy of a searchable Braille 
> > bible?  I have one where you search by book, then by book and chapter, and 
> > then by book, chapter, and verse.  By the time you find what you are looking 
> > for, they have moved on to something else.  Any other way I have tried says 
> > no results.  LOL Thanks.  Joy 
> >
> >
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