Early Extraterrestrial Explorations

Why not a publishing technology that enables a reader to print out books in any preferred format? (I will explain what I mean.)

It is aesthetically satisfying and economically sound to publish a series of books in uniform volumes of approximately equal lengths. Hence, the precise lengths and contents of Volumes I-VII of Baen Books' The Technic Civilization Saga by Poul Anderson. However, I have speculated about an alternative way to present this series. See the "Bite-Size" search result, here.

Here would be another way. In terms of content alone:

the opening three short stories of the Technic History describe the exploration of Iapetus, Ythri and Gray/Avalon;

the next sixteen installments, including three novels, cover the Polesotechnic League period and could be presented in an order that begins and ends with Adzel because his name is the opening word of "How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson" and he concludes the dialogue at the very end of Mirkheim;

after Mirkheim, the other five installments, including one novel, in the existing Volume III form a coherent sequence -

Avalonian islands are settled;
an Avalonian continent is settled;
Argos says that he will found the Terran Empire;
the Empire incorporates Ansa;
the Empire fails to incorporate Avalon.

Potentially, this gives us three volumes of very different lengths:

Early Extraterrestrial Explorations;
The Polesotechnic League;
Avalon And Empire.

But, however we look at it, we appreciate the length, coherence and complexity of Anderson's Technic History.