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I wonder about the age of the people who thought books should be updated to include cell phones. Did these people grow up in the age of cell phones and just can't imagine not having them? Personally, I don't need books from other eras updated to include modern technology. I'm fine with reading them in the era in which the author originally set them. Of course I'm old enough to remember having a wall phone on a party line and no computers....
I prefer that books from other English-speaking countries remain in their original versions. I can usually figure out what's going on from the context if there are unfamiliar words (such as recent slang) that aren't in the dictionaries on my ereader.
To me the biggest reason to update a book would be to correct errors. I remember I bought a book from Sony a year or so ago that had a number of odd characters scattered throughout the text. Maybe I should log onto Kobo and see if it's been updated (I haven't actually shopped at Kobo since the store transfer, due to issues discussed in other threads).
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