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Loisirs Littéraires au XXe siècle (English: "Literary leasures in the 20th century") from the story "The End of Books" by French writer Octave Uzanne and illustrated Albert Robida. The illustration depicts a female reader of the 20th century, imagined by Robida, who is listening to "12 poètes assortis" (twelve assorted poets) on a balcony overlooking a future city.

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An audiobook is a recording of a text being read.

Spoken audio has been available in schools and public libraries and to a lesser extent in music shops since the 1930s. Many spoken word albums were made prior to the age of videocassettes, DVDs, compact discs, and downloadable audio, however often of poetry and plays rather than books. It was not until the 1980s that the medium began to attract book retailers, and then book retailers started displaying audiobooks on bookshelves rather than in separate displays.

See also

• Children's gramophone records
• Educational software
• LibriVox
• Playaway
• Radio drama
• Learning Ally
• Text-to-speech
• Voice acting
• Wikibooks
• Wikisource
• Books for the Blind
• National Audio Theatre Festival, a national audio arts organization and workshop, which includes training for aspiring audiobook artists/producers.