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Originally Posted by Jovvi
If you chose to only read stories that are original, word by word by what the author wrote, even if that was several hundred years ago and some of the words have a totally different meaning today, thats fine! But if there is someone that really liked this story and would like others to read and love the story to but see that maybe lots of more people would read and understand if those words with the new meaning were edited to conwey the meaning better, I think they have the right to publish such a version provided they clearly state it is a modernized version.
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Note that the bolded text means you and I do not disagree. I've been saying this all along: preexisting works which have been changed in terms of actual substitutions and deletions are warranted
as long as the editing work is noted and attributed prominently.
But I'm also of the opinion that, when a book is rare and therefore unavailable to most readers, a reissue or format-converted edition should follow the original text as faithfully as possible.
What seemed a divergence of ideas might only have been confusion as to wording.