Unified English Braille which has replaced the older English Braille American Edition uses a lot of "contractions" ('ea', 'be', etc.), shortform words which are combinations of braille (like the braille for 'ab' which can mean 'about'), and wordsigns ('k' for 'knowledge', etc.) in the Grade II forms.

Grade I Braille is closer to what you thinking of.

It's kind of like when you first start studying American Sign Language and realize that a lot of the grammatical structure comes from French Sign Language.

Some languages use few or no contractions in Braille, but I think many of them also have very few Braille books available.

These cheat sheets do a really good job of condensing the whole system into one page:

https://www.pathstoliteracy.org/resource/braille-charts-summ...

I personally use a Brailliant which has a 40-cell braille display. It's portable so you can load a bunch of BRF books on it and read on the go - and unlike other portable eReaders doesn't suffer from screen glare in the bright sun. :)

Worth noting that this is because refreshable braille cells are really expensive to build, not because people necessarily want to be limited to such a short window of text. The Orbit Reader 20 (20 columns) is $800 and that's considered a "low cost" option.

You might be able to pick up a few "Easy Reader" books which have larger print that could also help. [2]

[1] https://uebonline.org

[2] https://www.pathstoliteracy.org/resource/dapdots-books-early...