Lelak has summarized my main problem with recent DC books.  To me, the gutter loss has been considerably worse in the new format vs. the archives.  I think it's a combo of thin paper, glued binding, more pages and I think we will find they are trying to make the images wider on the page, vs. the earlier GA archives.  Whatever the technical reasons, I find the books frustrating to actually read.  So I don't read em' and have slowed way down on what I buy.  I am on the fence on this one and probalby will not buy.

I hope at some point DC will challenge the now standard size book, but like FFF said, they don't even think about it anymore.