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Title: I agree: There's a serious binding problem. Don't buy!
Review: I am making this review for the sake of bringing down the rating. To reiterate what other reviewers have already made clear, this atlas has a serious binding problem. If a location is at the center of a two-page map, its difficult, if not impossible, to see the location. This is because the tight binding forces the two pages too close together.On the spur of the moment, without access to amazon.com reviews, I bought this atlas at a bargain price at a new/used bookshop. It had a glossy attractive cover, and I had been wanting a more manageable atlas than my bulky "Times Atlas of the World." The "Times Desktop Atlas of the World" is much more mangeable than its big brother, but it has only 25,000 place names. The "National Geographic Collegiate Atlas of the World" has about 55,000 place names, but it has its binding problem.I give this a one-star review, because I believe this atlas is something you should not buy. The binding problem IS serious.
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