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What about editing out the stuff one doesn't agree with? I'm reading Armageddon Averted, about the involution of the late and mostly unlamented Soviet Union. Toward the end, Mr Kotkin makes some gratuitous swipes at Reagan's part in the events leading up to that collapse. Shall I take those out, to make a book more to my (no doubt biased) liking?
If we had an app for this, we could read only the stuff that confirms our prior knowledge, without troubling ourselves with any new information.
Oh! And what about changing the titles, for crying out loud? What right has Evelyn Waugh got to title his book A Handful of Dust when I haven't the faintest idea what the literary reference might be? Or Ernest Hemingway with The Sun Also Rises? The snobs!
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