In reply to johncook: My copy has just arrived and I'm suitably impressed. As you say, the photos are great and the topos are generally superb.
I am not completely certain I'll get used to the topo style (old dogs...) and I have to admit I have now got quite used to some sort of colour/grade system in guidebooks. That said, POD has produced a vastly impressive tomb covering almost the entirety of Peak Gritstone in a single volume. The sheer number of routes he has crammed in, without skimping on space for photographs, is incredible. At the £17.31 it cost me, it works out at a bargain £0.003 per route!
It could give Rockfax a run for their money but only time will tell whether the topo format is a hit or a miss with the key segment of newer climbers who are buying their first guides to the Grit.