And this is getting into an area of false precision as those numbers do not mean anything:
And that's baloney. Particularly since you just read one thing it means: the difference between being able to print it out and slip it into the book it's issuing errata on, and not.
You may not find that to be a meaningful difference, but others do. And it's a clearly measurable, objective difference. Either you can do it without damaging the spine of the book, or you cannot.
The different formats have already been discussed quite a bit and we could even delve down into font sizes and white space if we want. Ultimately, the PHB 3.0 had a nice big hardbound errata document - the 3.5 PHB.
No ultimately it had 6 pages. And that's meaningful, because it said a lot for ability to transport your PHB with the errata included, or a separate document.
Regardless of format, I'd rather have several pages of fixes, if needed, than a full buy-it-again update in 3 years.
It was not three years, and I don't think that's what anyone is asking for. I for one mentioned they should put it up for free in the two different formats. Nobody is telling you that you have to go buy it again.
There's a huge amount of straw-manning and exaggeration and snark in this thread. Can we please cut it out and just talk? We're talking about about 3-4 preferences here, nobody's preference is inherently superior to anyone else's, and I am looking for a compromise that would satisfy most people. And in return, I've repeatedly got intentional twisting of what I've said, sarcasm, snark, edition warring claims, and dismissal (which is what you just did with your "don't mean anything" because it didn't mean anything TO YOU even though you knew it meant something to many others).
I think we're all getting ahead of things anyway - let's see what they publish and then run the "will the errata affect your future purchases" poll/thread once the new edition is out.
We're talking about a philosophy of errata. Full repeat of paragraphs vs. summary. Small enough to slip in a book versus large with lots of white space for ease of reading. Delivery methods. Etc.. It's all relevant no matter what they come out with, since I think nobody expects zero errata.