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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5691250" data-attributes="member: 82106">My take on it is like this. The 1e books are pretty readable, though the font is on the small side for my eyeballs at this point, but it is a nice typeface on actual white matte paper, not hard to read. The 2e books are OK too, though maybe not 100% as readable. The 3e books are tougher, the PF books I can't read at all, except carefully in good light. The 4e books OTOH are definitely quite readable, though matte paper would be better than the gloss everyone so loves these days. The fonts are larger, and the layout is more expansive. OTOH up to a certain point sheer page count isn't that large a factor, it is more the need to lay things out and set up for printing. The real cost is likely more generating the material to start with. If they condensed the layout it would probably just mean the books would be slightly more expensive or slightly smaller in page count (and possibly slightly cheaper). I would at a guess imagine that WotC has considered the relative merits of a slightly cheaper book vs a more readable one, at least from their perspective. Frankly readability is attractive to me at this point. Even if I wanted to play PF I'd be rather discouraged by the lesser legibility of the rules text (and man is there a lot of it!).</blockquote>