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Originally Posted by tompe
This bother me also. I read The Three Musketeers as an MR ebook and it was annoying not knowing which edition you read or if you read a combination of editions. Or if it was changed in any other way..
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That
is rather annoying. I'm not keen on the fact that on Project Gutenberg, for example, books may be an amalgamation of several editions. according to them - I'd prefer if each of the different editions was separate. I'd also prefer if the original scan was available as a PDF (i.e. a straightforward facsimile, not the OCR'd version); although I totally see the logic behind the preference of PG (and many of the other hosting sites) for epub, most ereaders are now able to handle PDFs - to some extent at least - and it would be nice to have the ability to see what the text looked like in the original book, which is what Google Books and some of the major library sites provide.
Still, at least these books are out there, rather than hoping for someone to dig them out from a dusty attic.