The pages on French red wine, for example, could have been left out or at least replaced with more interesting material, of which I will give two examples.

WSJ: Book Review: Surfaces and Essences

And one-time venture capital bible Red Herring ballooned to hundreds of pages.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Not to mention the fashion and celebrity press, which historically devotes dozens of pages and airtime to red carpet garb, often in the form of "dos and don'ts" lists.

FORBES: Must The Show Go On?

When students were given creativity tests, those whose test-cover pages had a green background gave more creative answers than those whose pages were white, blue, red or gray.

WSJ: Tactics to Spark Creativity