This is one of the most valuable books you can add to a 3.5 campaign. It has a plethora of excellent new magic items across all price ranges—so you don't have to wait until 8th level before you find an exciting, useful magic item for your PC. The new and improved magic item tables in the back are great for DMs, making it easy to balance random item drops for your party's level with tighter price ranges and more consistent game balance. If I could only use one book besides the core three, it would be this one. (Or maybe Unearthed Arcana.)

I got the PDF version, so I can't comment on the quality of the print-on-demand version. Fair warning, unlike the other premium rulebooks, errata is not included here, so you will have to download a separate PDF. The errata document is seven pages long and consists mostly of updates to the school of many items' magic auras and tweaks to the prices of runestaffs. Also, the amber amulet of vermin now summons a Large monstrous scorpion rather than Huge. That's important.

Awesome purchase! The softcover is of good quality, the scanned material is legible and the pictures turned out just fine in my opinion. I have no issues with the PDF either, it is of good quality as well. I highly recommend the purchase of one or both products and for the price of both the PDF and softcover together you cannot go wrong!

Being a soft cover it lacks the majesty but for 15 bucks as opposed to 100 on amazon an excellent bargain. Mine does not have the issues the other review for this has. Reccommended for anyone who wants to have access to a plethora of magic items.

Though excited to finally get a copy, and amazed at its voluminous content and tremendous utility, it is disappointing that the print quality looks as though it was made using a standard home printer.

The item description says quite plainly that it is printed on standard heavyweight paper but, one would expect better ink quality, and, perhaps more importantly, that the pages had all been cut straight.

So, in conclusion; this is a tremendous dungeon master resource which should most definitely be snatched up by anyone who plays third edition D&D, but beware, you might be disappointed with the quality.