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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
To everyone hating on the Reader's Digest editions -
I'm never going to hate on something that is a gateway to reading. If RD meets someone where they are and gets them interested in reading, then I have no issues. They aren't high art or anything, but they do serve a purpose.
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I got some karma from some folks for this, so I thought I'd expand a little. My grandparents had 2nd and 3rd grade educations respectively. I lived with them for a span as a kid. They didn't have cable TV, but they did have some mail-order RD editions. The three-volume Sherlock Holmes set was my first ever exposure to Holmes, and it turned into a life-long love. Those editions were also the first place my grandmother ever read poetry. When she died, I found thousands of hand-written poems that she had copied out of library books.