The person who said this book is put together well will be in for a big surprise if he uses it very much. The binding is cloth-textured paper and the pages are merely glued in--although this short-cut is cleverly concealed. In short, the book is not permanent and will not bear much usage.
That BIG complaint aside, this book is exactly what I was hoping it would be. I have no complaint at all about the text or the pages. Since most who order this book are seeking to improve either their English or German, they should not mind the skimpy textual and other notes being added as an appendix.
I really wanted to love and USE this parallel Bible, but the binding is much too flimsy for the latter. I see now that I should have waited until a better binding (with sewn-in pages) was available. Perhaps I got some sort of book-club edition with a poor binding--and the other reviewers got something different and better. If so, that is my bad luck--and I remove all my negative statements and change my rating to five stars. All I know is that with the book I have, the boards will very soon crease and eventually tear at the folds, and the pages will soon be falling out if I use this book as I intended.