{"id":190,"date":"2016-05-28T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2016-05-28T14:03:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T12:03:02","slug":"e-books-and-audiobooks-in-return-from-the-stars-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/e-books-and-audiobooks-in-return-from-the-stars-1961\/","title":{"rendered":"E-books and audiobooks in &#8220;Return from the Stars&#8221; (1961)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ebooks-optons-lem-return-from-the-stars-1961.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ebooks-optons-lem-return-from-the-stars-1961-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ebooks-optons-lem-return-from-the-stars-1961\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ebooks-optons-lem-return-from-the-stars-1961-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ebooks-optons-lem-return-from-the-stars-1961-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ebooks-optons-lem-return-from-the-stars-1961-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ebooks-optons-lem-return-from-the-stars-1961-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ebooks-optons-lem-return-from-the-stars-1961.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The books were crystals with recorded contents. They could be read with the aid of an opton, which was similar to a book but had only one page between the covers. At a touch, successive pages of the text appeared on it. But optons were little used, the sales-robot told me. The public preferred lectons \u2013 like lectons read out loud, they could be set to any voice, tempo, and modulation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><note>\u201cReturn from the Stars\u201d, translated by Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1980, p. 79<br \/>\n<\/note><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The books were crystals with recorded contents. They could be read with the aid of an opton, which was similar to a book but had only one page between the covers. At a touch, successive pages of the text appeared &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/e-books-and-audiobooks-in-return-from-the-stars-1961\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[43,20,42,41,19],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-predictions","tag-audiobooks","tag-e-books","tag-lectons","tag-optons","tag-return-from-the-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}