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• Sound recordings

• Talking books

• Audio books
• Books, Cassette
• Books on tape
• Books, Recorded
• Cassette books
• Recorded books

• The Art and Science of Audio Book Production (1995), by Billy R. West (HTML at loc.gov)

• Science Fiction and Fantasy (1994), by Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)

• Braille Book Review (partial serial archives)

• Talking Book Topics (with additional materials) (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Wonderful Inventions: Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress (Washington: The Library, 1985), ed. by Iris Newsom, contrib. by Erik Barnouw (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Latest Blues by Columbia Race Stars: Columbia New Process Records, Made the New Way, Electrically, Viva-Tonal Recording, The Records Without Scratch (ca. 1927), by Columbia Records, Inc. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Capturing Analog Sound for Digital Preservation: Report of a Roundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Transferring Analog Discs and Tapes (2006) (PDF at clir.org)

• Capturing Analog Sound for Digital Preservation: Report of a Roundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Transferring Analog Discs and Tapes (2006) (PDF at clir.org)

• Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2009), by June M. Besek (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972 Commercial Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2005), by June M. Besek (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Record Labeling: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on Contents of Music and the Lyrics of Records, September 19, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cash Box (partial serial archives)
• Recording Musician (British magazine, 1992-1993) (full serial archives)

• Gramophone (1923-) (partial serial archives)

• The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, c2013), by Aram Sinnreich (PDF with commentary at piracycrusade.com and various other sites)

• Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates (West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, c2006), by John Logie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Copyright and Home Copying: Technology Challenges the Law (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Bytes and Backbeats: Repurposing Music in the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Steve Savage (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Vinyl Theory (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2020), by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
  • HTML and Epub with commentary at Lever Press
  • HTML and PDF at JSTOR

• Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2009), by June M. Besek (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972 Commercial Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2005), by June M. Besek (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings under State Law and Its Impact on Use by Nonprofit Institutions: A 10-State Analysis (2009), by Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, contrib. by Peter Jaszi and Nicholas B. Lewis (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)