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Old 04-06-2014, 10:44 AM   #167
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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle View Post
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.
Frankly, I do suspect the MR library and hesitate to use it. This is not the first time an uploader has mentioned taking some "artistic license." And since so many people here are taking a "hey, whatever, what's the big deal" attitude about changes to text, I wonder how many uploaders share that attitude and never mention the "minor" changes they make.

The works here may be nicely formatted, but if the trade-off is changes to text, no thanks. It's too bad that everything gets tarnished with the same brush.
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