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Originally Posted by graycyn
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!
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Fedora: Free version
Also stupid conversions of LSD, Pounds, shillings and Pence. My grandchildren have no problem with original versions. My Children had no problem with old versions or old money and they were born after UK & Irish decimalisation.
Also record players, cassette players and CD players and the media are still made and sold. Though I think the later 8-Track, Betamax, laser disc, VHS and minidisc players are only available S/H.
Many kids under 10 know what a rotary dial phone is and how to work them, they've seen retro-replicas and old films.
Authors don't usually write books for a lowest common denominator or the least educated that can read. Publishers are just being stupid editing old titles like they do. They brought out heavily revised Famous Five and had to revert most of the changes. There are no shortage of modern books if people don't want to read the older ones, but it's a kind of cultural vandalism to edit (especially silently) and re-issue old material.