> "coffee-table book–size slab" ...an egregious and tortured alternative to using actual units. They made it coffee table sized? They made it book sized? Do

> "coffee-table book–size slab" ...an egregious and tortured alternative to using actual units. They made it coffee table sized? They made it book sized? Do all "coffee-table books" come in the same size? Are they using the coffee-table coffee-table book from Seinfeld? It's worse than a "Library of Congress" quantity of information, or a "football field" of land area. Would it be so hard just to say "square centimeters", or the more America-friendly "square inches"?