NO SPOILERS - ANY SPOILERS STRIPPED OUT OF THIS REPLY The chronological order is VERY jumpy and I'd find it distracting. And as somebody noted once, since a couple books share timelines, true chronological order involves jumping back and forth between books. Too much work, and too disjointed to the storytelling of each individual book, IMO.
I prefer publication order in part because that's how I encountered the books. I read Magician before the Empire trilogy was finished or PotB was written, so I largely encountered books as they were published. Thats familiar to me AND it works. That said, personally, I tend to move the Krondor series (he calls it "Legacy" but I always think of it as "Krondor") and the Legends series to somewhere between the Empire trilogy and the Serpentwar saga - I do think they tend to fit a bit better there. That's more true for the Krondor series than the Legends series, as the Legends series fits well just about anywhere you want to read it, even generations after Jimmy the Hand is gone. If you remember that the Legends series is the LEGENDS series - these are stories of the past - then encountering them out of order shouldn't be that disruptive. Yes, we're going to go back to revisit characters when they were younger and before other things happened to them - but that's okay, because they were written knowing the audience knew what was going to happen to the characters in the future, and the stories are told so that's okay and doesn't hurt your enjoyment of them.
