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Your message is like an early Christmas present to me - especially as my wife and I long ago gave up agonising over Christmas gifts for each other, reasoning that we already possessed or had bought everything we wanted/needed, so settled upon just tokens and edibles (although our sons still benefit in pecuniary fashion). I did in fact briefly look into the possibility of publishing the collected surveys like the old guides such as the three volume "Opera on Record", edited by my critical model, Alan Blyth, but the world has changed since then: everything is available free online via our website, it would be unlikely to sell, and I am happy to bequeath that to the music-loving readership as my own little legacy. So sorry - you'll just have to print it off for annotation purposes or add comments to an electronic copy. I am just pleased that you find the surveys useful; I hardly expect to meet with universal approbation or agreement, especially given my openly advertised prejudices but it seems that they can serve as a helpful resource. Thanks again for the post.