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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
That is a very heady question. Very slippery slopes. It is one of the first things I learned upon volunteering for Distributed Proofreaders is DON'T CHANGE the original text...unless...
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I agree. It's quite easy to get carried away with making what you may think are innocuous changes. Especially this:
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I've found several old books that don't seem to have as many commas as I think they should,
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I avoid "fixing" things like this at all costs. If only because I'll never get the ebook "done" otherwise. It's far too easy for me to go from format-shifting to re-writing otherwise. And I don't consider myself qualified/entitled to do the latter... no matter how often I delude myself into thinking I
might be.