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The talking book service that is licensed to thrill



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Published Date: 26 August 2008
By Dick Barbor-Might
THE connection between the fully sighted, if fictional, James Bond and visually impaired people is not the most obvious. Yet it was in evidence last Friday at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Two men in tuxedoes, armed, so it was said, with Walther PPK pistols, moved confidently amongst the guide dogs and the guests who had come to the book launch, the invitation marked "for your ears only."
The guns turned out to be water pistols but the little bit of fun from the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) chimed with the other celebrations of Bondery that have been taking place at other events during the Festival season.

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