"The End of Books" by Octave Uzanne, Illustrations by A. Robida, Scribner's Magazine,

16 (1894) pp 221-231.

In the 'The End of Books' Octave Uzanne brilliantly anticipated the invention of the Walkman and anticipated the modern form of the 'demise of books argument' by a century.

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