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  Boy asks for more Braille books
Updated 22 October 2003, 19.03
Children read books in a library
A campaign's being launched to get more cool magazines and books translated into Braille.

Braille is a language developed for people who have problems with their sight.

You read words by tracing your fingers over the bumps on a page.

And 12-year-old Adam is backing the campaign. He told Newsround he's trying to get his fave books and magazines translated into Braille.

His favourite mag, Kerrang!, isn't available in Braille, as most magazine are only translated by special request.

Adam said it can be really frustrating waiting for things to be translated: "I love Metallica but I can't get the latest info about them because I can't get my favourite magazines and books in Braille."

But the Kerrang! editors said they'd never been asked about Braille before, and they're now looking into the idea as a result of Adam's enquiry.

An extract from the Braille alphabet
Because books and mags are translated into Braille by volunteers, not by publishers themselves, this means that people who are blind or partially sighted have to wait longer to read the latest books.

And by the time they get their hands on a magazine it's usually really out of date.

The Royal National Institute for the Blind say there are around two million people in the UK with sight problems and they don't have access to around 95 per cent of books published.

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