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Old 07-20-2014, 06:31 PM   #380
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Publishers constantly change books, and they don't tell the reader. That's the way the world is.
These are two different things. Those with a financial stake in a copyrighted work can do as they please with it to maximize their return. People who create digital books as a labor of love shouldn't rewrite text and pass it off as original.

And nobody's expecting Herculean efforts here. Get a reasonable copy of the text and go with it.

C'mon, Harry, you don't really think it's ok to change a text.

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Not at all favourably, I'm afraid. I want to read what the author originally wrote, not what a later "editor" has changed at a whim. Sorry, Alex - your library upload is appreciated, but speaking personally I'm not at all in favour of this type of arbitrary editing.
That's all Catlady has been saying, too.
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