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There's a significant difference between preserving cultural artefacts (which books are) as monuments to the time that they were written, and editing books as appropriate reading material for children today. Sure, you could use an original edition of a "Hardy Boys" book as an object lesson in a school classroom on the changes in American society over the last century, but that's a different goal to providing reading material for children to read themselves; the latter should, I believe, reflect current societal attitudes to subjects such as multiculturalism.
Yes, preserve the originals, but recognise that they are inappropriate children's reading material for today's society.
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