someone has probably mentioned this somewhere else, but barnes and noble site says that the core set has 228 pages. so its either 57 pages in each book, or two slim books, and two really slim books. but with most of everything on cards, big rulebooks arent needed,

The images of the Core Set contents seem to fit in the slim category. But, as you said, with the cards for things like actions, talents, careers, etc, that's a lot less stuff that needs to be in them that would normally be there and taking up space.

agreed! im sure the books are rather small, much like a Army book for Warhammer table top, its got only what you need. most the stuff is gana be on the cards

From looking at the preview copy that was available at Games Day, the books are considerably smaller than your average army book. 228 sounds about right for a total page count.

Of course those might just be mock-ups for demo purposes, they were shrink-wrapped in a cabinet so I con't be sure.

I believe that previously the Core Set was said to contain four books each with roughly 100 pages.

well.....thats rather larger then that sight says....hmmmmm owell! i just wana get my hands on them