The large-print proof arrived--good Lord, that thing's a mother! It looks like the phone book! And it's not APH-compliant for weight--I don't know how you could produce an 18-point book that weighs under two pounds, unless you printed it on tissue paper. As luck would have it, CreateSpace does not offer a tissue-paper option, so mine weighs almost four pounds.
And while the cover was easy to resize and generally looks good (the art is teeny, which helps), you can tell that the author photo on the back has been distorted--makes sense, the eye is particularly sensitive to the shape of faces. But I think my vanity can handle it....