Pocket-sized chess books: gone for good?

Is it just me or are most modern chess books published in a 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches  format or larger? Some of my favorite books, such as Euwe's The Development of Chess Style (McKay, 1968) , were published in a pocket-sized 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches format, and they are tiny when compared to the latest publications:

But part of the charm of the "old" chess books was that you could... put them in your pocket, and read while travelling. Now this charm seems to be gone. Yes, we get a lot of information for the money, but in brick-sized publications. Anyone else nostalgic for the small format? 

I'm with you for sure.  

The 4th edition of Silman's How to Reassess Your Chess is 7" x 10" x 1.25" thick, compared to the 3rd edition's 5.5" x 8.5" x 1" thick.  It's more a tome than a book.  (A very good tome, but a tome nonetheless).

However, when talking about pocket editions, I can't help but shake my head at the cover picture chosen for Lev Alburt's Chess Training Pocket Book:

Just embarrassing! I ripped the cover off of my copy so I could actually take the book out of the house (which is rather the purpose of a pocket book).

Interestingly, they made a slight change (complete with some photoshopping on Lev's shoulder and chair) for the sequel to this book:

I just noticed that you can still see the woman's thigh under GM Alburt's right arm in the second book...

Charming.

It all seems to be a part of a trend, to make the book and magazine covers stand out. What's next? This?

They had to change the second cover. Nobody would believe that's Al Lawrence....

You may not be wrong!

"Well, obviously we'll sell more books with the blonde on the cover, but some people might be confused and Al might not want that kind of fan mail... better remove (most) of her." -- The marketing genius who came up with the idea for the first cover.

All it needs is a section on how to improve your opening play (in the bedroom), or ways to improve your mating, and it'll be an instant bestseller.

Obviously, if you play chess you'll get all the hot chicks!

Beavis:  Heh heh, check it out, Butthead, chicks want guys who own in chess.

Getting back to the original topic, here are my smallest chess books:

I didn't think the c3 sicilian was that complex. Back to the najdorf.