Read apparatus having vertical turret magazine for information discs

Read apparatus for optical discs has a turret magazine rotatable in a vertical plane, and a disc-drive arrangement surrounded by the turret magazine so that a disc received from the magazine is rotatable in a vertical plane which extends substantially parallel to the supporting plane of storage compartments situated underneath and above the plane of rotation. A feed-in device includes a loading funnel and an unloading funnel arranged respectively above and underneath a receiving compartment of the disc-drive arrangement, each storage compartment has an associated releasable holding device for the discs, and the receiving compartment of the disc-drive arrangement has an associated releasable holding device for a disc received from the magazine.