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Why should one review Weedon’s third edition of Skin Pathology? After all, it has been available for over a year, and most dermatopathologists, surgical pathologists, and dermatologists interested in dermatopathology have a copy of it or have access to it. How will a review of this book help them? My tripartite answer is simple. It deserves a review because of its near 20-year history; it deserves a hearing because of its author – and it is primarily the work of a single author; and it is grand in scope as it attempts to cover aspects of every major area of dermatopathology. Dr. Weedon’s preface is a must read. He tells us explicitly that “... this is likely to be the last edition of this book by the current author...” and so it is the end of an era no different in magnitude, if not in intellectual outreach, as the passing of Dr. Ackerman in 2008. Fortunately, Dr. Weedon is still alive at this writing, and he will continue, hopefully, to shower us with his integrations of dermatopathologic knowledge for some time to come. This is an exhaustive text with 1041 pages in the main text and 881 pages of references. Both volumes together weigh 181⁄2 pounds, so this is not a set for any backpack. It resides in my office on a shelf with easy access to my desk. The cover is a deep blue with pleasing gray lettering; I would have preferred cloth for durability, but the cover supplied is adequate if one does not move the book around too much. On the inside cover are instructions for access to the website that allows Internet access to the full content of the text and references for those who have purchased it. This is a colorful book made of very nice, sturdy, nonglare paper. All of the photographs are in color, and there is color-coding of the chapters for relatively easy access. There is repeated use of the colors but with enough separation that it is not confusing to find the needed chapter just by matching the colors. An added bonus in this addition is the presence of uniform, well-photographed examples of lesions – and lots of them! – which is a big plus. In the case of many of the rare conditions he describes, he provides at least one reference – usually a list of key references – so that the reader can find photographs of the rare examples. Another fantastic Weedon D. Weedon’s Skin Pathology. 3rd ed. London: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2010