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Originally Posted by Justy
I like Diane Duane's solution for the Young Wizard series. She wrote the 1st book about 20 years ago and the series is still active so she has released separate updated "millennium editions' of the early books to more closely match the technology of the later books. This way those of us who have read them from the beginning can still have access to original stories, and we can read the new versions to see what it would have been like if the main character was excited about getting a big flat screen TV instead of the colour TV they got in the original version. In some cases she made sure to say 'there wasn't any cell reception at the beach so they had to use the pay phone at the convenience store.'
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The problem with that is that a lot of places don't have pay phones any longer. At least I've not seen one around where I live for several yrs now. The reason is obvious. Everyone has a cell phone and so pay phones aren't needed. In fact one of the few places I can think of that has a phone for public use now is my local public library. It's a regular land line phone. I have the 1st four books in paper (through a used book store here in town) and enjoy them.