Books Star Wars: Timelines puts the existing "canon" of that franchise in chronological order. It's a coffee table book equivalent of these innumerable online lists but with the comics and books included across glossy pages filled with illustrations. There have been similar books in the past, but this is the first to bring together everything amassed narratively in the new canon, post Disney take over. Finally the Wookieepedia can put actual dates to things rather than having to speculate based on evidence found elsewhere.
Sadly the continuity errors section of the Wookieepedia for the book is a more interesting read. Unlike similar efforts, the Star Trek Chronology, Doctor Who's AHistory, it fillets all the stories into the smallest events so we're told things like "Padme and Anakin visit her family on Naboo before heading for an isolated retreat in the beautiful Lake Country" or "Leia helps the Ghost steal ships for the rebellion" but we're never told directly in which stories these incidents took place or why the writers have chosen to place them in this order (beyond Holocron mandate).
Perhaps I've been spoilt by AHistory, which has footnotes justifying every single placement and puts the title of the story at the top of each entry, but Timelines instead turns Star Wars into a flowchart running across the middle of the pages which on the one hand fits the epic sweep of the franchise but on the other means we don't know if these events happened in a comic, novel, Star Wars Insider short story, animation or film. Even hardcore fans won't know the sources for all of these adventures.
A text based format would not necessarily be required. A short code, similar to the ones I used in this list could have been put in brackets at the end of each storybite with a key/glossary/list printed in the back before the index pointing to the source. Instead its up to the reader to try some lucky searches online which doesn't seem like a particularly useful way of selling merchandise. Although because the Timeline describes how every story plays out, in most cases there's no point.
You should probably save your money and just look through the Timeline of Galactic History on the Wookieepedia, which lists all the major and a ton of minor events with references and also has the Legends version alongside so you can compare and contrast the deviations in story. The "notes and references" section underneath reads just like AHistory's footnotes with lots of uses of the words "state" and "occurs". Or read this person's spreadsheet which does the author's job for them.
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