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I prefer non-tinkered-with versions, personally. I could probably put up with corrected spelling but wouldn't be happy with completely changed words.
I am currently scanning and (painfully) proofing some favourite old books that aren't available as digital copies. I am leaving the endless hyphens and what is now rather old-fashioned punctuation, as they are of the era and that is fine by me.
An example of "modernisation" that I find truly appalling is the changing of the language in Enid Blyton's Famous Five books to make them ostensibly easier to understand and more politically correct.
When I first read those books as a young child, many years after they were first published, I read the original editions without any trouble at all (and without the benefit of Google, gasp). A large part of their charm was destroyed by modernisation. A sacrilege in my opinion.
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