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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Love it.By D. A. NortonI love this book. The actual music is great but sometimes its hard to hear the lyrics. I was surprised at how many songs Bob Dylan has written. Its interested to me to just open it to a page and read the lyrics for a song. Also I bought it as a collectible as he won the Noble Prize this year.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Essential for a deep dive into Nobel-winning DylanBy FumioEven though I spent some time in the United States during my childhood; for a Japanese person like myself it is difficult to truly appreciate Bod Dylans Nobel Prize-winning lyrics by just listening to his records or CDs. (unless you do so hundreds of times like I did with Times They Are A Changin )Having this book in front of you and turning the pages one by one as the song goes on is a real pleasure and makes you fully understand why he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.38 of 40 people found the following review helpful. Best edition of the best lyrics ever written!By Rick WorleyThis book is exactly what it claims to be: a collection of Dylans lyrics; and about the best one there is.There arent annotations; or essays; or anything like that. It is just very simply a collection of the lyrics to use as a reference; or to page through and read for pleasure. The lyrics are presented very nicely; in a large font; with each song getting its own page or pages if its length requires more than one. The songs are presented in the order they appeared in on the album they were released in; with b-sides and other releases collected at the end of the section for the album that came out closest to when they were written. Each album has a title page with art from the album presented in black and white; and a page showing Dylans hand written or typed draft of a song from the album. In terms of layout and content; it is almost just like the 2002 lyrics collection; only with the much needed update of 10 years of additional material. If you liked that book; you know basically what youre getting here.It is not 100% complete with everything he has written... I noticed that Marchin to the City; a favorite track of mine that I think has only been released on Tell Tale Signs; was not included. The book does include many of the songs that hes written that werent on his albums; though; and while there might be a couple obscurities missing; you will find a ton of great stuff anyway. As far as the claim that this collection features lyrics that have been newly edited by Dylan; I didnt find any yet; but I havent read every lyric in the book or compared them all to earlier versions. Im a big Dylan fan; but not a Dylanologist that spends his life studying every detail; so I look forward to the articles by those people which Im sure are forthcoming that will examine the lyrics that have been changed.As far as supplemental material; multiple versions of the songs; color art; and extras like that; the large Dylan lyrics book from a couple years ago had more of those things. However; it was a gigantic; massive book; and it also cost a couple hundred dollars more than this one; depending on when you bought it. Personally; although that collection is beautiful; the size is an impediment for me. If you want a collection you can actually read; that one is awfully heavy and inconvenient. This is the one I would get.But in the meantime; if you want a book collecting the work of our greatest living songwriter; here it is; beautifully presented in a high quality volume. Doesnt get much better than that.