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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I admire those who do this type of work pro bono as it were, and perhaps a smidge of artistic license while keeping the meaning intact is not inexcusable.
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Sorry, no. I'm in total disagreement. The only place for artistic license in the preparation of an ebook is in its design, not in the text. For the text, you can take all
editorial liberties that you like,
but you have to acknowledge them. An ebook that is supposedly by Wilkie Collins but has
light-hearted where Collins wrote
gay,
without informing the reader of the change, is an utterly horrible thing.
If uploading books with unacknowledged textual changes were common practice here on MR, no, worse, if people just got the suspicion it might be done here occasionally, the whole MR library would be pointless and worthless. Am I to tell my friends that they can get nicely designed classics here for free, but, hey, the uploaders may perhaps have taken a smidge of artistic license with the texts? Good grief.