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Thank you! Well I think some people just love words, they like to discuss meanings and interpretentions, I do to sometimes (swedish words with my friends) but when reading a literary text I usually prefer not having to look to many words up in the dictionary (occasional words are fine) because it distracts me from the story and for me the story is the most important thing about books.
I do agree that preserving rarer books as close to the original as possible (word by word) is important but a really see no contradiction between the two, It was just that I got the impression some people here objected to even the thought of modernizing. As I think most of us agree, so long as a work clearly declare that it is modernized and updated there is nothing wrong with it. I agree you have to be very careful though and that modernizing has its own set of pitfalls and is not as easy as one could think.
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