True enough for reading, but I wish the folks behind the Masterworks would be more faithful to the original art. The colors are often garish and details in the original inking are lost or suffer from blurry reproduction. DC used to do much better with their Archives until the budgets were cut. My
The Masterworks (at least the original ones, never saw more recent ones) are more or less useless if one wants to have the story as it was.
All the recoloring may be nice (in some cases) and it can also follow the original color schemes (it didn't when they started), but it just isn’t the real thing. :shrug:
As for me, I agree with David on the choice as well. But also with GAtor. I have an early Daredevil Comics with brittle pages, but brittleness is confined to an edge, so I can read it, while I have another book which looks super-nice but it is more brittle and I never handle it and just stare at the cover.
Generally speaking, I would never buy effectively brittle books again.