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  Having seen a request for suggestions about helpful devices just now on
the Handy Ham list for amateur radio operators with disabilities, I was
motivated to share my invention instead with those on this list, who are
more likely to be Braille readers.

  It consists of two half-inch pieces cut from a plastic drinking
straw--preferably not the fattest sort.

  They're threaded onto the place-holding ribbon of a Braille book, and a
slip knot is tied at the bottom of the ribbon to prevent loss of these
reading aids.  One of them is either at the top or the bottom of the ribbon
to indicate left or right page, and the other indicates how much of the page
has been read.

  Having begun to learn Braille only five years ago and having started
reading Braille books only two and a half years ago, I find these bits of
plastic tubing indispensable for knowing where to resume reading after any
sort of interruption, and I wonder why the Library of Congress's Braille
books  don't come with some such place holders on their ribbons.

  Nelson, Oakland, Calif.


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