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Originally Posted by theducks
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  |
From Wikipedia, it seems not all were abridged:
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Since 1950, Reader's Digest has published a direct mail series of hardcover anthologies containing abridged novels and nonfiction. The series was originally called Reader's Digest Condensed Books and renamed in 1997 to Reader's Digest Select Editions.
From the mid-1960s to early 1980s, full-length, original works of non-fiction were published under the imprint Reader's Digest Press and distributed by Thomas Y. Crowell Co. Beginning in 1982, a series of classic novels was published as World's Best Reading and made available by mail order to magazine subscribers.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader's_Digest
Ps: btw, I agree that a shortened version might have a specific explanation of it; e.g. a digitalized version from a "tascable" edition probably wouldn't mention it too.