Morten Reff's Chuck Berry Directory finally out! Part 2

I finally finished to read Morten Reff's Chuck Berry International Directory book.
I am collecting Chuck Berry music for more than 30 years now, though I never had the money or the will to collect (all of) Chuck Berry's records. While I have more than 500 Chuck Berry records and approximately the same number of CDs, I never tried to find each and every pressing or version of a record. Often the ones in my collection are cheaper re-issues. So when readers ask me about a special label or cover variant, my typical reply was that I don't know.
That's no excuse any more. Morten Reff's book answers maybe not all, but most of your questions. Now we finally know that there are five different versions of the Dutch variant of Berry's On Stage album, just in case you try to collect all of them. I found it astonishing to see how much I did not know about Berry's records. I will have to rewrite some comments on this web site, probably.
Morten has documented Chuck Berry's released records world-wide to a much greater extend than anyone ever before. According to his writing, the listings for the US and the UK are complete. The ones for most of Central and Northern Europe also look fairly complete to me. There's only one record documented to be published in Peru, so there may be room for extensions. If you know Chuck Berry records not yet listed in Morten's book, both Morten and I would be glad to hear from you.
Some details you may be looking for you will not find in Morten's book. For instance it seems to be impossible to document all the typeface and type size differences for those records pressed in millions. Too many pressing plants, too many printers, too many variants. Morten wisely choose not to go into details here.
But on the other hand you get many more details than you probably expect. For instance Morten has actually listened to all the records and therefore comments on sound quality, the use of mono, stereo, and electronically altered versions, and much more.
Many, yes: many of the records Morten shows I have never seen before. And this does not only cover the more obscure Korean, Taiwanese or Philippinian releases. Even some of the Dutch or English records I have not seen before. Where available Morten has listed year of release, track listing, correct and incorrect composer credits, song variants, and more. Often he shows cover and label, including variants such as promotional copies. Best reading are his comments on the worse records such as "Nobody wants or needs this record."
Volume 1 covers the officially released records. So all the more interesting ones such as bootlegs, radio station records, soundtracks, and more will be in Volume 2, due hopefully soon.
There is little I don't like about this book. One thing are the images which I have two problems with: First there are too few images. Half of the records are shown visually, but the other half is not. Having helped Morten with scanning and photographing dozens of covers and labels, I know how much work is in the images shown. But especially where Morten writes about an interesting picture, I wish he would have shown it.
Secondly all the images should, no: must have been in color. I know color print would have made the book more expensive. But I really doubt any buyer would care if the book would cost 40 Pounds instead of 30. Either you need this book, or you don't. I personally think color images would have made the book twice as good.
Finally I miss, at least according to my wishes, some kind of pricing guide. While Morten tells about the relative rarity of an item at some places, a general value or rarity index would have been helpful. But hey, this opens an opportunity for someone to come up with a pricing guide. Let me know when you're done.
Until then I cannot wait to see Volume 2. Write, Morten, write!