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The Untold Story of the Talking Book (Hardcover)
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The Untold Story of the Talking Book (Hardcover)
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Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the
digital screen. Left out of that familiar account are nearly 150
years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of
audio-recorded literature, Matthew Rubery traces the path of
innovation from Edison's recitation of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" for
his tinfoil phonograph in 1877, to the first novel-length talking
books made for blinded World War I veterans, to today's
billion-dollar audiobook industry. The Untold Story of the Talking
Book focuses on the social impact of audiobooks, not just the
technological history, in telling a story of surprising and
impassioned conflicts: from controversies over which books the
Library of Congress selected to become talking books-yes to
Kipling, no to Flaubert-to debates about what defines a reader.
Delving into the vexed relationship between spoken and printed
texts, Rubery argues that storytelling can be just as engaging with
the ears as with the eyes, and that audiobooks deserve to be taken
seriously. They are not mere derivatives of printed books but their
own form of entertainment. We have come a long way from the era of
sound recorded on wax cylinders, when people imagined one day
hearing entire novels on mini-phonographs tucked inside their hats.
Rubery tells the untold story of this incredible evolution and, in
doing so, breaks from convention by treating audiobooks as a
distinctively modern art form that has profoundly influenced the
way we read.
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