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it doesn't seem like there's a huge rush for everyone to go out and buy all of HoME!
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Indeed! And there is the not inconsiderable cost - £10 a volume - the kind of prices which non-blockbuster books tend to be lumbered with.
As Mithalwen says, it's amazing that we can view the drafts and papers of Tolkien with such ease, and I'm certainly glad that CT put all this effort into producing HoME. So many other writers' papers are locked away in universities and us mere mortals never see them.
About getting confused with all the different versions, well, I've been there too, but a packet of those sticky page tabs in different colours works wonders!