My father read about the library in the paper, and he asked me if I would like to sign up to borrow Braille books. I told him that I most certainly would. The next time my father drove through Des Moines, he stopped at the library to enroll me as a borrower. Soon afterward, the first of the books arrived in the mail. The packages I received contained three or four volumes.
Braille books can be long.
Gone With the Wind is ten volumes, but Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol is only one. Each volume I got from the library was about twelve inches square, and about three inches thick. They came to me wrapped in heavy brown paper tied with string. Books for the blind travel through the mail postage free. Inside the front cover of each volume was a mailing label containing the address of the library.