1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse: Remake, Restyle, Recycle, Renew Book

This was about a 3.5 rating. There are some very clever and amazing crafty things pictured in the book. but I was stymied by some book layout issues.

The premise of this "all photos" book is to present items "remade" from something used for another purpose previously, in some manner remade, restyled, recycled or renewed. The book meets the need of the newish "upcycling" movement.
The number "1000" in the book's title is misleading since there are definite repeats, but I guess the author was aiming for a round number.

I was most interested in the "Paper, Collage + Assemblage" chapter and the "Jewelry + Adornments" chapters, both of which provided some great creative inspiration and ideas. The soft goods chapter, which you'd think I'd like as a knitter, was mostly sewing items which I didn't think were very appealing--most were a bit weird for my tastes.

Jeff and I thoroughly enjoyed looking together at the all-too-short "Geek Craft + Man Craft" section which includes all variety of things made from cogs, wheels, computer parts, etc--including a functional wood computer keyboard with keys made out of scrabble letters, and a keyboard made from old, round manual typewriter keys, lending it a steampunk look.

The book ends with a chapter on fine art and installations made from recycled materials, which appropriately rounds off the book with some even wilder inspirations, including woven sapling vessels encircling a building (reminiscent of the woven sapling house in the movie Where the Wild Things Are).

The biggest drawback to the book is that the photos are only labeled with the artists' names and country plus the photo credit. I had to constantly skip back to the appendix where the title and materials for the piece were listed. What the beautiful or weird items were remade from is what this book is all about, and why make the reader work so hard to discover what materials the artist used?
The text listed in the appendix was not even very long, so it could have been printed small with the photos themselves. I feel the book would be more interesting and usable with the materials listed directly there--after all, it's all about reusing materials, so tell us up front what the materials are!