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Originally Posted by DixieGal
Absolutely agree. Sure, I could read it without footnotes and commentary, but the experience is so much richer with the added info. Even with an extensive study of lit history and so on, I think I would miss a lot of nuance with just a cold reading. Then again, some of the comments seem to be pure BS, so you have to use your own judgement on the usefulness of them sometimes.
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That's why I still have a bookcase full of Penguin and "Oxford World Classics" books, even though the actual "texts" are freely available here. It's worth paying for a decent edition, even when the text is in the public domain.