I can see 2 reasons for continuing to buy these Hornby magazine annuals. If you don't buy the magazine on a regular basis, it gives you a nice easy to read, diverse topic hardback book that is an enjoyable read on it's own. If, on the other hand, you buy every issue, then having the annual just completes your set. There is not much genuinely new material in the book, and what there is, is then typically published during the following year - the article on the project layout has just be re-published in the March 2012 issue for example. I like these yearbooks anyway, it's a convenient advert free refresher/preview of the monthly magazine, and is always a welcome Xmas present from the wife (even if I do order it myself, she wraps it well!!). If the content was 100% new and never re-used, it would get 5-star by the way.