Featured on PDR in the collection Octave Uzanne’s “The End of Books” (1894)
The end of books has been declared many times. Over a century before the invention of the e-reader and the meteoric rise of the audiobook and podcast, ardent French bibliophile Octave Uzanne (1851–1931) wrote a story, inspired by rapid advances in phonographic technology, imagining how printed text might disappear.
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Editorial Rooms of the Phonographic Journal of the Future
(Dictating News Cylinders)
Artist
Date
1894
From
“The End of Books”, Scribner's Magazine
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