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Title The untold story of the talking book / Matthew Rubery.
Author Rubery, Matthew, author.
Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
©2016
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  002.09 RUB    Check Shelves
Description 369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: what is the history of audiobooks? -- Part I. The phonographic library -- Canned literature -- Part II. Blindness, disability, and talking book records -- A talking book in every corner of dark-land -- How to read a talking book -- A free press for the blind -- From shell shock to shellac -- Unrecordable -- Part III. Audiobooks on and off the road -- Caedmon's third dimension -- Tapeworms -- Audio revolution -- Afterword: speed listening.
Subject Audiobooks -- History.
Literature and technology -- History.
Talking books -- History.
ISBN 9780674545441 (hardcover) : $29.95
0674545443 (hardcover)
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