Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: What Is the History of Audiobooks?
Part I. The Phonographic Library
1. Canned Literature
Part II. Blindness, Disability, and Talking Book Records
2. A Talking Book in Every Corner of Dark- Land
3. How to Read a Talking Book
4. A Free Press for the Blind
5. From Shell Shock to Shellac
6. Unrecordable
Part III. Audiobooks on and off the Road
7. Caedmon's Third Dimension
8. Tapeworms
9. Audio Revolution
Afterword: Speed Listening
Notes
Credits
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Introduction: What Is the History of Audiobooks?
Part I. The Phonographic Library
1. Canned Literature
Part II. Blindness, Disability, and Talking Book Records
2. A Talking Book in Every Corner of Dark- Land
3. How to Read a Talking Book
4. A Free Press for the Blind
5. From Shell Shock to Shellac
6. Unrecordable
Part III. Audiobooks on and off the Road
7. Caedmon's Third Dimension
8. Tapeworms
9. Audio Revolution
Afterword: Speed Listening
Notes
Credits
Acknowledgments
Index