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Originally Posted by Billi
No. It will prevent exactly zero bad feelings in the future. Such an announcement was made at the third of April and nevertheless this person spread her poison again and again and insulted the whole 30.000 volume MR library at the end of July.
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The answer to that is to tell them to go and jump in a lake. If they don't like what the uploaders are doing, they can create their own books.
It's often a case of "damned if you do, and damned if you don't". People have been complaining about books being "changed", but I got a huge amount of flak a while ago for uploading Jane Austen books with their original early 19th century spelling and punctuation (eg "chuse" rather than "choose", "shew" rather than "show", etc) - people claimed that they preferred modern spellings and the original spellings were hard to read. So whatever you do, there's going to be someone who's not happy about it.
(I should add that these were
not "conventional" spellings for the time. The simple fact is that Austen's spelling was awful, and she appears to have spelled words the way she spoke them in her local Hampshire accent.)