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Originally Posted by murraypaul
...The aim is entertainment, not preservation. If there are obvious changes that make the book more entertaining, without distorting the original meaning, why not make them?...
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That's fine as long as the reader is told that it is not the original text
BEFORE the book is selected/purchased. Putting any such changes in an appendix without making any other notice is evil.
There should be a preface with an explanation of the changes and some tagline on the cover and title page. The reader should not be duped into reading the book without prior knowledge that they are not reading the author's original words.