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Originally Posted by Quoth
I didn't realise till I was an adult that the "Readers Digest" multi-book hardbacks are all massively abridged (There was or is a UK version). Since then I've avoided them even at 50c in S/H bookshops and charity shops etc.
We had the actual magazine for over a decade and my dad always put it in the bathroom/toilet room. Years later he mentioned that it was very right wing and we only had it because the subscription was an annual Christmas present from someone he was friends with in the 1950s.
Mind you, I think the publisher should have got some authors to edit shorter before publication (Robert Jordan, Alexander Dumas).
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They were abridged.
My folks gave me a Life subscription ($75 US, not available anymore) to RD when I was born.
I still get it almost 80 years later. I think they got their moneys worth
