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Originally Posted by DrNefario
They also like to add introductions so they can have some copyrighted material in the book.
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The introduction, footnotes, appendices, etc, is the whole
point of scholarly editions. If you want the "raw" text, you can get it free of charge. The "extra stuff" is the reason I have a bookshelf full of Penguin Classics, Oxford World Classics, etc.