In yesterday's Digest Sam Harris wrote about a project: Mechanical
Music Journals on CD ROM.  Let me inform you about my experiences with
magazines on CD-ROM: it's great, when the set-up of the database is
done correctly.

The bi-weekly magazine C't (dedicated to computers and so) is offering
a subscription with and without a yearly CD-ROM.  You also can order
previous editions, and last year they even brought out a DVD-disk with
five years on it.  And remember: it's a "fat" magazine.

And how about scanning old books, out of print, and putting them on a
CD?  It's not so expensive, nowadays, to produce such a CD ROM.  And
imagine that you had Bower's Encyclopedia in your drive!

Jan Kijlstra

 [ Is the data stored as scanned images, or as text files?  Is the
 [ index supplied on the CD-ROM, or did you create it?  -- Robbie