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LONDON — About 40 people responded to a man’s advertisement requesting people to read to him after a passerby tweeted a photo of the request posted in a bookshop.
Andrew Bailey became unable to read due to a degenerative blindness condition 15 years ago, leaving “a huge empty space” in his life, according to Channel 4 News out of London.
Bailey asked his caretaker, Bradley Baxter-Hassell, to write the advertisements, which he placed at Foyles bookshop and Goldsmiths, University of London, several weeks ago, according to the BBC.
Twitter user Dec Munro tweeted the photo Saturday of Bailey’s advertisement at the bookstore Foyles in South Bank, London, and the photo was retweeted more than 1,600 times.
This note is at Foyles on the South Bank. Please do RT it pic.twitter.com/Qq2VWNN045 — Dec Munro (@DecMunro) October 11, 2014
Dozens of people contacted Bailey, saying they would read to him.
Bailey, who studied American studies at the University of Northampton, told the BBC he has about 100 books he hopes to read. His favorite author is John Grisham, but looks forward to reading Charles Dickens, Sue Townsend and Jodi Picoult with the reading volunteers.
