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Man you're brave. I will freely admit not having the energy for something like this.

@sapphireangel You mean the Johnstone Family Christmas westerns? Which one are you on? Oh man those were so much cringe.

The upside to children's books is that you don't have to think while reading them, and since they're usually short, they're great additions to the year's reading challenge.

@noahcarver @VE3RWJ Yes. All of this.

@VE3RWJ From a reading perspective UEB appears to be a solution looking for a problem.

@VE3RWJ From a reading perspective UEB appears to be a solution looking for a problem.

@sclower @VE3RWJ Speaking for myself: Because UEB is missing a bunch of contractions in Grade II, it takes up more space. And in a world where braille cells are at a premium, (20-cell braille displays for example), that converts to way more scrolling, which depending on the display being used can be a slow process. All of this contributes to its being cumbersome to read. Separately from this, UEB is just aesthetically displeasing. It's ugly.

@sclower @VE3RWJ Speaking for myself: Because UEB is missing a bunch of contractions in Grade II, it takes up more space. And in a world where braille cells are at a premium, (20-cell braille displays for example), that converts to way more scrolling, which depending on the display being used can be a slow process. All of this contributes to its being cumbersome to read. Separately from this, UEB is just aesthetically displeasing. It's ugly.

@VE3RWJ As someone who uses all three of those I can tell you that the attempt at combining them all into one code hasn't worked out well, at least for readers. For one thing, Nemeth is still used despite the attempt at combination because the new combination lops off a ton of stuff we get in Nemeth.

I'm going with this.