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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9379167" data-attributes="member: 6796661">I've only removed it from the shrink wrapping and paged through it, but wow, what a wonderful book. Great coffee table book. This is a definite A or A+ for those who enjoy looking at historic artifacts. I've read a number of good histories on the game and I didn't buy this to read a history, but to look through the curated documents it presents. It certainly is not for every fan, especially given its price. I think an e-reader version would not work well, but it would be great if WotC would put up a digital museum online where the curious could browse images of some of these documents from D&D's history.So far, the quality of the physical book seems great. At least it makes a good first impression. Not sure how well the spine of such a large and heavy book would put up with any abuse and this is a book that I'll treat with care.First, one neat little touch is that the promo sheet, which is usually something you just throw away after removing the shrink wrapping has an early character sheet printed on the reverse side. That makes me not want to throw it away, but I don't know exactly what to do with it. Shove it in some file? Fold it in half and insert it somewhere in the middle of the book?[ATTACH=full]367992[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]367993[/ATTACH]The book jacket is nice, but I love the actual hard cover. I always have this issue with books in that I like the look and feel of the actual covers. I even like the look of the naked covers on my bookshelf better than the jacketed spines. But I don't want to throw away the jackets and usually keep them on for "protection", removing them when I'm actually reading the book.[ATTACH=full]367996[/ATTACH]The soft-touch coating and the embossed D&D logo on the front and Blackmoor (?) logo on the back look and feel great.[ATTACH=full]367994[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]367997[/ATTACH]The four sections of the book each have a different color footer that also show from the page edges and their are four colored bookmark ribbons sewn into the spine of the book with colors matching the section colors.[ATTACH=full]367998[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]368000[/ATTACH]Overall, my first impression is that this book is well worth USD 100 and I have no buyer's remorse. I'm looking forward to paging through the artifacts to scratch the itch of my interest in the history of the game and my nostalgia. But others have done a better job summarizing the contents. I just wanted to note the quality of the physical book itself.</blockquote>

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