14. A method of manufacturing a media article, comprising the steps of: producing a non-transitory media member which is insertable into and removable as a unit from a separate playback display device; producing on the media member visual text material comprising a book or instructional work, an audio narration identical to the text material synchronized with the text material as the text material is presented to the user during execution of the media member by the separate playback display device, and a plurality of successively presented non-text visual images combined with and pre-synchronized with the text material, wherein the text material is inserted below or superimposed on the non-text visual images and then combined with the audio narration to produce a combined, pre-synchronized work on the media member, wherein the text material, audio narration and non-text images are not separate files on the media member but are combined in the pre-synchronized work during manufacture thereof, so that the display device can directly read and present the pre-synchronized text, audio narration and non-text visual images to a user, without using a microprocessor to obtain the text material, audio narration and non-text visual images from separate files on the media member and then synchronizing them for display to the user, wherein the steps of producing the visually presented text material, audio narration and non-text visual images are carried out in such a manner that the resulting text material, audio narration and non-text visual images are recorded in a pre-synchronized manner on the media member and comprise the entire media member such that it is unitary, self-contained and such that it cannot be modified, altered or interacted with by a user during execution of the media member and display of the combined work to the user, and further such that the media article does not require a microprocessor at the display device to execute the media member.
14. A method of manufacturing a media article, comprising the steps of: producing a non-transitory media member which is insertable into and removable as a unit from a separate playback display device; producing on the media member visual text material comprising a book or instructional work, an audio narration identical to the text material synchronized with the text material as the text material is presented to the user during execution of the media member by the separate playback display device, and a plurality of successively presented non-text visual images combined with and pre-synchronized with the text material, wherein the text material is inserted below or superimposed on the non-text visual images and then combined with the audio narration to produce a combined, pre-synchronized work on the media member, wherein the text material, audio narration and non-text images are not separate files on the media member but are combined in the pre-synchronized work during manufacture thereof, so that the display device can directly read and present the pre-synchronized text, audio narration and non-text visual images to a user, without using a microprocessor to obtain the text material, audio narration and non-text visual images from separate files on the media member and then synchronizing them for display to the user, wherein the steps of producing the visually presented text material, audio narration and non-text visual images are carried out in such a manner that the resulting text material, audio narration and non-text visual images are recorded in a pre-synchronized manner on the media member and comprise the entire media member such that it is unitary, self-contained and such that it cannot be modified, altered or interacted with by a user during execution of the media member and display of the combined work to the user, and further such that the media article does not require a microprocessor at the display device to execute the media member. 16. A method of claim 14 , wherein the book is a non-fiction work.