Baltic Adriatic Run 2011 - Route Planning (Books)

I am now in possession of the two books which cover the route from the top of Germany all the way to Verona.
Europäischer Fernwanderweg E1 by Arthur Krause published by Kompass covers the 1773 km German section of the E1 from Flensburg to Konstanz. It's in German but I figure that a guidebook should have a fairly limited vocabulary which I'll be able to master pretty quickly. It looks pretty detailed. The route is divided into day hikes of roughly 20 to 30 kilometers. There's a little map for each day, it tells you what waymarkers to look out for, suggests how long it should take and other stuff I haven't figured out yet.
To fit the whole route into one volume means that the maps are pretty small scale. If I'm reading it right they are 1:200,000. Each section advises what larger scale maps are available for that section. So that's good.
The second book I'm using is Across the Eastern Alps: E5 From Lake Constance to Verona by Gillian Price and published by Cicerone, one of the Cicerone Guides. This starts from Konstanz and continues along the south (Swiss) shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee), cuts across Austria, a bit of Germany again and then Austria for real and goes through the Alps. Somewhere along the way Austria becomes Italy and then it's down the hill towards Verona which is just a cough and a spit from Venice.
This book too is divided into daily sections with distances and estimated times. Now, very usefully, it also gives ascent/descent details for each section, i.e. how much hill you're gonna have to get up, which, in the mountains, is a much more serious determinant of how tough a day is going to be than distance on it's own. Every few stages are summarised by a diagram of the altitude changes which is pretty good.
The Cicerone Guide has photographs which the Kompass book doesn't. I like the pictures. I'm getting a buzz just imagining going through that landscape. But they are also useful for giving you an idea of the terrain.
The two books together weigh in at 18 ounces or 520 grams. That's an extra pound I have to carry just for the luxury of knowing where I am. The need for more detailed maps really depends on how well these routes are signposted. If I do need more detailed maps I can, hopefully, buy them and discard them as I go.
So the German section is 1773 km, Konstanz to Verona is 585 km, let's say 100 km from Verona to Venice. Oh, and I want to do a day or two in Denmark before I start the German route just for the extra boasting rights, let's call that another 50 km. That makes the whole journey about 2500 km. In english money that's 1550 miles. Sheee-it. Now that, is a run.