Revealed: how Hitchhiker’s Guide author predicted rise of ebooks 30 years ago

In unseen notes to be published in a new book, Douglas Adams foresaw the success of a host of technology we now take for granted

Douglas Adams created the most famous ebook reader - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - almost 30 years before the first Kindle was released, but he didn't restrict his ideas to his science fiction.

In the late 1990s, at least a decade before Amazon's e-reader first came on to the market in 2007, the author and humorist made a series of notes uncannily predicting the rise of electronic books.