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The future of books in the 1930s

The future of books in the 1930s. This is how Paul Oltet in the 1930s was de- scribing the future reading desktop ‘The worktable does not hold any book. In- stead, there is a screen and a telephone. All the books are far away, in a huge building (...)’ cited in (Levie 2006).

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