Can't they make this book a little smaller than the last one? The size of the last one was ridiculous. Books that are to be read rather than just left on coffee tables should be easy to handle, not big cumbersome things. And there's way too much of a thing of Star Wars fans being milked for cash through lots of big overdone luxury giant hardbacks/coffee table books. I think they deliberately make the books unwieldy just to make them fancy and jack up the price. And so many Star Wars fans just go along with it. Real books are meant to be read, not left on coffee tables. And there's a general trend nowadays (not just in Star wars) of making books bigger than they need to be just so people can think they're clever for reading a book that has physical bulk. So often, the same text can be put out in a much smaller format that's easier to handle and doesn't take up so much precious bookshelf space. And the Star Wars situation is just another facet of the sad situation that Star Wars merchandising has become.

And yeah I know there was a paperback version of The Making of Star Wars that was smaller (at least the British version), but if you got that there was stuff left out. So I was stuck getting the giant motherfucking Making of Star Wars and constantly trying to figure out where to put the bloody thing.