The Electronic Home Library: 1950’s Style

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The year is 1959.
The place is the Chicago Tribune.
The image is from Arthur Radebaugh’s syndicated futurist cartoonist strip, Closer Than We Think!

The text accompanying the image (emphasis mine):

Some unusual inventions for home entertainment and education will be yours in the future, such as the “television recorder” that RCA’s David Sarnoff described recently. With this device, when a worthwhile program comes over the air while you are away from home, or even while you’re watching it, you’ll be able to preserve both the picture and sound on tape for replaying at any time. Westinghouse’s Gwilym Price expects such tapes to reproduce shows in three dimensions and color on screens as shallow as a picture. Another pushbutton development will be projection of microfilm books on the ceiling or wall in large type. To increase their impact on students, an electronic voice may accompany the visual passages.

 Now that’s e-reading!

 Thanks to io9 for the lead