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I take no stance toward Ms. Bujold's reactions or her ways of expressing discontent, but I can see how she is thinking. Some of those CD's contain *A LOT* of works; it seems that some even contain complete series if several CD's are combined. It may not have been a problem at the time those CD's were first distributed, because there were no e-readers; now that there are, along with a program such as Calibre to convert to newer formats, those CD's can be seen as a problem.

I don't know if she really "misunderstood" the terms with regard to distributing those CD's, and as said, I don't take a stance in that matter. What certainly is true is that she highly underestimated the impact of these CD's, caused mainly by the appearance of e-readers in 2006-2007. Suddenly, it became easy and above all, *convenient* to read e-books, increasing the worth of those CD's multiple times over.

If there hadn't been any e-readers (or tablets) now, I couldn't have cared less about the free Baen CD's.

(I didn't expect this thread to become a Bujold Bashing Bonanza; it certainly wasn't intended as such. I thought that this issue was long settled, and just wanted to provide a way to get a hold of the complete set of Baen CD's.)