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A matter of taste, I suppose. I agree; the Phiz illustrations are in and of themselves exquisite, but I don't want them in a text stream as a general principle.
That said - most of what I want to transcribe doesn't contain pictures, and I find in my favourite genre - science fiction - that the pictures distract me rather than enhance the experience. I find often the same disjunct as one gets seeing a favourite book performed as a play or on TV; you get the *director's* internal image of the book and if it doesn't tie with your internalised image, it jars.
As I said, a personal taste; other's mileage may vary and far be it from me to constrain or instruct them.
Neil
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