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Techmoan did a video on these, pretty interesting:

I wanted one of these so bad back in the day. Never had the cash though unfortunately.

It's an interesting observation that there wasn't really a viable market for an ebook device with large-capacity, expensive write-only media - it's not that publishers didn't want to sell e-books, or that readers didn't want a library-on-a-CD, but that there was no good way to sell individual books since customers couldn't burn their own CDs, and didn't want to carry 50 CDs with them.

> It's an interesting observation that there wasn't really a viable market for an ebook device with large-capacity, expensive write-only media

Or even, perhaps more relevantly, with read-only media.

Encarta could have been the killer app.

Ah, my favourite Youtube channel - highly recommend TechMoan!

I thought I had a decent knowledge of obsolete audio and video formats until I started watching his channel.

It's fantastic. Also nice to see someone doing that kind of thing on YouTube with a local (well, to me) accent.

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