PDF support for Album Artwork??

The time of digitally distributed music has come; by necessity or force, it's here. Apple is one of the leaders with iTunes, and have brought some of the most artistic people together as employees and consumers under the Apple Inc. community...
HOWEVER: Is there not a more dynamic way of dealing with Album Artwork in iTunes yet?
Why has Apple not made it a point to really pioneer the visual-artistry that has accompanied albums for decades in the new digital realm? Album artwork is ALMOST as important as the music itself, yet apple has not made some sort of dynamic, perhaps PDF style support for album "booklets" for non-iTunes store music. Coverflow introduces it, yet leaves much to be desired, and the way one goes about editing album art for multiple covers per song is underdeveloped. You have to drag one item in at a time and it's clunky.
Too often a musical group will allow their album to be downloaded from their website after purchasing the hardcopy, being sure to include a PDF of their cover and booklet, only be ultimately put in the trash by me, the consumer, because there is no real way to view it, or even store it in iTunes.
It would be wonderful to see this relatively simple but incredibly important aspect of music culture taken into more consideration, and become a strong component of iTunes in the near future. With the amount of development time put into iTunes I'm sure this issue could easily be solved with creativity and speed. The ability to drag a PDF right into the album artwork box on the bottom left of iTunes would be awesome and convenient. (I'd love to even see some kind of visual art, or "album art" Podcasts, downloadable artistic portfolios, or artbooks).
Thank you Apple for all you do.
Max
p.s. If I am in fact way off in my observations in regards to the lack of album artwork support, please, by all means tell me. I would love to be incredibly wrong and have there be a solution already built into iTunes. I know there are booklets included with some of the albums purchased in iTunes, but we still can't just drag a PDF into iTunes and have it stick to a song.

So no real answers here yet. I too would like to know the resolution at which the album artwork is displayed on my iPod photo in order to optimise my music library.
If either of you find the answer please let me know - benedict dot mortimer at gmail dot com. I'm going to pose this question in a new feed now...
Thanks.
ps - I see Google image search as the best way to find album artwork.
PC   Windows XP Pro  

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