I've just bought the book - terrible rip-off really, but it's the most delicious little hardback.
Mind you, I do wish they'd extend the new realisation that one way to make people buy the hardback is to make it a delicious object, to relising that it really lets it down if the paper inside is just the usually cheapy and nasty web-press tat.
Yes, I noticed that about the paper quality. I really like the illustrated endpapers though, and it being so dinky but also hardback. I'm such a sucker for these things
Think I'll start listening to these on i-player this afternoon. Might cheer me up.