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Originally Posted by Catlady
Oh lord.
It's simple. I get a digital copy of a public domain book. I tweak it to make it suit my tastes--changing words, punctuation, sentence structure, whatever. Maybe I have an agenda, maybe I just think I'm making it better. I upload it to the library here, to my Web page, to other sites. People download it. They don't know that I've made changes. They think they're reading the book the author published way back when, but they're not. They're reading my bastardized version..
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Yep. That's precisely what you're perfectly entitled to do with a public domain book. As I said previously, if you want guaranteed fidelity to what the author wrote, buy the "Penguin Classics" edition.