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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Didn't we have this discussion before and find that the books were edited even before those sixties copies you guys had read? These books began publication in the 1920's after all.
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The Hardy Boys copies I read most definitely pre-dated the 1960s by a couple decades, as they had all belonged to my father when he was a child.
True, they aren't great literature, but the originals were much better than the revised editions.
A couple of times, for fun, I've compared a childhood title to a library ebook version. There is definitely a lot of "dumbing down" going on. Words like "fedora" being changed to, say, the more generic, "hat". Ugh. What the heck does it hurt for a child to learn what fedora means? One of my pleasures as a child was learning new words!
I wish that when titles are abridged or updated or modernized, the publisher would mention it. It'd be nice to let the consumer know.