Review on NFPA National Protection Association Electrical by Bill Forbis

I bought this 2020 NEC code book expecting it to be the same quality as any other code book I've had over the years. In this codebook, the text is of poor quality, the highlights are dark, and the paper feels too thin. After using it for maybe 8 total hours studying, pages started falling out of the binder. That's never happened to me, not even with code books sitting in a hot pickup truck for years and thrown around as I used them in the field. This is not a decent product for any price. What's with the watermarks on every page? If someone owns a 2020 NEC codebook in paperback that they bought directly from NECA, are there watermarks on the pages? Is the text faded in places and does the text appear doubled in places? Curious if this is an issue with all 2020 codebooks or just some. My return window has expired but I will be buying another one elsewhere to see if I can get a good one.