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Originally Posted by jgaiser
So Jon, can you provide us with a book that the wording has been changed? Or is this just comment for the sake of commenting?
Some of you folks are starting to sound like the tin foil is getting a bit tight.
I'll say once again. If you don't like the ebooks that are being provided, join those that are providing their free time to make them available here.
For my part I'm thankful for the editors who have filled a library with some amazingly fine books.
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Earlier in this thread, AlexBell revealed that he altered the word "gay" to "light-hearted" in a novel by Wilkie Collins, because gay would "almost certainly" be read as homosexual.
I admit it, I was rocked by this. All the books in the MR Library are tainted by such an admission, even though it's unjust to the other hard-working and scrupulous uploaders. While I acknowledge the time and effort, it's to no end if the books can't be trusted. Moreover, the clear implication that the uploader thinks the general reader is too stupid to understand a common English word in context is offensive.
And if that puts me in the tinfoil-hat brigade, so be it.