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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
It always makes me think of Tom Jones for some reason. My second hand copy of the Siege of Trencher's Farm has the only swearword in the entire book scribbled out in biro. I've often wondered at the sanity of the person who did that. But I suppose I'm lucky they didn't just tear the page out.
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In a similar vein, I proofed one of my H. Rider Haggard books against a scanned PDF I downloaded from Google Books, which had every occurrence of the word "nigger" crossed out. I guess that some people feel the need to censor books.