Why I can't read Middlemarch

They say that Babe Ruth had such great vision that he could read a license plate two blocks away. Stan Musial talked about being able to see the seams on the baseball moving as the ball left the pitcher's hand. Ted Williams and Rogers Hornsby were legendarily protective of their acute vision. Maybe these guys could read the Norton Critical Edition of George Eliot's "Middlemarch" - and maybe as an NCE it's designed for college students who are not yet completely myopic. But I couldn't manage to work my way through an inscrutable font in a point size so minute it's probably measured in decimals. Thanks, W.S., for bestowing upon me an edition of one of your fave novels, esp. after I whined that the crappy old pb that I have on shelf is no longer in readable condition, but the NCE for me was impenetrable. I promise I'll read Middlemarch again, somehow and in some way, but not in this edition. If ever a book was meant for a Kindle, this one's it.