it's size is also it's affliction;
the ideas could be depicted in 100 pages or less but they couldn't sell it then, could they?
so here it comes, somewhere down the road it gets boring, repetitive and watery (I was surprised to find weird cake recipes from the 50s and it fails to remain 'an example' as it was intended, the book loses it's touch with the ground;

the ideas about saving time could be summed up better in order to save reader's time, for instance.
Would you agree, Laura?