@Enes, I understand.

First the reason braille seems to be dying is because 1. It is expensive to produce. To make a book, you need a $5000 braille printer, $40 or $80 special braille paper rheems, $600 or so braille translation software like Duxbury, binding and labeling machines... 2. It is not practicle to carry around braille volumes, many of them at a time. 3. the 40 year old piezoelectric braille displays are so expensive only government agencies and institutions buy them for education and employment purposes. Most consumers can't aford them. Even the 12 to 14 cell displays are $1000 or more. To read a book 20 to 40 cells is best. Perkins braillers are about $800 brand new. The only affordable braille writing device is the slate ;and stylus at $6 or $7. They make great quality braille. But writing volumes of braille is not practicle. I can write up to 20 words per minute with my slate and stylus. I can use it as a noteTaker. But we increasingly don't live in a hand-writing world. Books are digital. It's easier to get digital books. If braille does not become digital and affordable it will unfortunately die. That's why the orbit20 is being made and will be out soon. It's like a digital slate and stylus. a simple braille book reader, basic editor with no translator. file manager and braille terminal to use with screen readers. It's dust and liquid resistant and virtually drop proof. I tested 2 of them. They're nice durable little braille displays. The braille is like reading braille on a sign or an elevator door. You can put hundreds of thousands of braille volumes on the sd card. Because its a basic display it will show you any braille you want. You can read music braille and math braille with it if you want. Its braille notetaker is also simple. Make a new file and write whatever braille code you wish. Write grade3 braille or Japanese braille if you want. Its a raw braille editor. it does cut and copy and paste, backspace and new line. like a digital perkins brailler. It has no speech at all. the old displays required a $500 to $1000 a year SMA to keep those things running and cleaned. the new tech in the orbit reader will, like a brailler or slate, you buy it, use it, and it keeps on going no SMA needed. Unless things like the orbit reader become the new standard, and orbit Grafiti tactile display, and new multiLine displays such as the kanute, we need new modern digital low cost braille tech so braille does not die off.

as I said before once the orbit reader20 is out worldwide, for the price of a good cell phone, you will have a nice affordable braille display that can read any braille code in any language you wish.

http://tech.aph.org/or20

skimming through text and stuff like a sighted person? Reading fast and finding text quickly? I wish the orbit reader20 and Grafiti refreshable low cost tactile graphics display would have been available for me in high school back in 1996. They would have made doing homework and skimming through textbooks for vocabulary words and other things so much quicker and easier. With orbit20 when I tested out some units, I could skip by page, jump to different parts of braille books, quickly switch volumes, read by character word line and paragraphs, find all underlined bold or italicised words in a braille book very very quickly and more. I could also open a new file and just start writing in any braille code I wished. then hit select two times to quickly save that file to the sd card. again, you can read its manual at
http://tech.aph.org/or20

regarding braille music, I needed it in high school. I was in the marching band and had to learn certain pieces of music and memorise them. I could not have done it without braille music. regarding the new ueb braille. the free send2braille translator does not force ueb on you. the new orbit20 will not force ueb on you. its default code for menus files and messages is 8 dot computer braille. and in send2braille, you can change its braille table and have everything translated in the old style braille you like the most. That's another thing I liked about orbit20 when I tested it. it does not force any kind of braille code on you. You use and read and write the digital braille however and in whatever way works best for you as an individual user.

I've never tried a Slate and Stylus. What is it like? I've only tried the Perkins machine, the electronic Mount Battin Braille Writer and Braille note takers like the BrailleNote and BrailleSense.