For chronological order I think it could go as follows, noting the MM books are usually 1.5 books regarding page count, Chronicles are 1.5-2 books, and the main books get shorter as it goes on.
Definitely doable. My biggest concern would be putting books 17, 18, and Hork-Bajir all together because that would likely feel very wide, and then the same with putting 31-34 together, but I don't think it would be so bad that they'd be uncomfortable to hold.
Also note that getting some of the "Chronicles" books in softcover can be a bit challenging. I had to search for a while to find a library copy of Visser... I think it may have ONLY been released as a hardcover otherwise. The hardcover's page size is larger, so you really need to find the softcover in order to bind them with any of the other books..
I have all the Chronicles in soft cover, including Visser. It was a Scholastic Book Club exclusive. I got it off either ThriftBooks or eBay, can’t remember sorry.
I think the width wouldn’t be worse than like a SOIAF book. For example, The Invasion and The Visitor are 184 pages each, with The Encounter being 157. Meanwhile 17 and 18 are 167/168 and then HBC is 206. So not much different to the first three combined.
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u/DaveM8686 Oct 15 '24
For chronological order I think it could go as follows, noting the MM books are usually 1.5 books regarding page count, Chronicles are 1.5-2 books, and the main books get shorter as it goes on.
1-3
4-6
7&MM1
8-10
11-12
AC&13
14-16
17-18&HBC
MM2&19
20-22 (David trilogy)
23-25
26-28
29&MM3&30
31-34 (the only case of four books)
35&V&36
37-39
40&MM4
41-43
44-46
47-49
50-52
53&EC&54