Is the Voynich illegible?

[Pythagoras]

I find it very difficult to read the faded smudged and often faint text. How can we possibly decipher the text of the Voynich when it is so hard to read in the first place?

Now in an ideal world we would have access to even higher resolution scans of the manuscript which might make it easier to determine what is written. However it seems very unlikely that there will be significantly higher resolution scans available any time soon. Frankly scans going down to a molecular level of resolution would not seem completely ridiculous.

Determining the precise pen motion corresponding to the blotchy characters is hard at the moment.

we seem to manage with other texts.
so i dont think we need microscopic level (let alone molecular) scans to read the text.
not to say it wont give extra information, perhaps it might.