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But EbookNovice should be aware this problem isn't limited to just ebooks. Different publication dates of the same paper books can and often do have some differences. Some may be only minor, but some... well the differences just might make one's head explode!
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I doubt this will assuage the OP's crisis of faith in books, but Manybooks have lots of public domain self-help books; just look in the 'Genres' section, where you'll find such subjects as Health, and Psychology etc. They're all legally free!
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Richard Wright's autobiography/bildungsroman American Hunger (a/k/a Black Boy) was, in the original published edition, butchered and bowdlerized by editors who censored it for sexual and political reasons, even removing the second half ("The Horror and the Glory") for fear of offending the communists whom Wright excoriated. At this point, there's little reason for me to read the original Book of the Month Club edition, but a critic or interested reader might find it instructive to compare to the restored edition to see exactly which bits were deemed unacceptable. Personally, I'm a fan of variorum editions when the edited and original texts prove equally interesting. Some writers revise to accentuate their own mannerisms at the expense of prose that was a tad ostentatious to begin with (Firbank); others erase their personalities in the interests of becoming more readable or close to the character (Flaubert). Certain writers, however, actually replace one exquisite choice with another they later deem more apt. One of the most fascinating exhibits I've ever seen was shown at the late Donnell Library in NYC: handwritten revisions to manuscripts by Nabokov and Yeats. Nabokov seemed a master of improving on perfection. Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 07-16-2014 at 02:45 AM. |
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I just thought an .epub site with a large community would be a good way to know that the .epub files haven't been altered because so many people would have downloaded them. |
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The simple answer is "stop worrying about it". Nobody else does, so why do you? There is no mass changing of books going on - the problem exists only in the your mind.
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Another thing is that you want to know what edition you are reading. And I read one of your Dumes book from Mobileread but I could not find out what paper edition it was based on. That was a bit annoying. Last edited by tompe; 07-20-2014 at 04:32 AM. |
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I have to agree that someone deciding to make changes to the wording of a book is unacceptable. Leave the words as is.
Also, it would be nice (when possible) to put what edition/version of the book it is so when you are looking for a specific version, you know if the one posted to MR is it or not. |
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Some of you folks are starting to sound like the tin foil is getting a bit tight. I'll say once again. If you don't like the ebooks that are being provided, join those that are providing their free time to make them available here. For my part I'm thankful for the editors who have filled a library with some amazingly fine books. |
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I admit it, I was rocked by this. All the books in the MR Library are tainted by such an admission, even though it's unjust to the other hard-working and scrupulous uploaders. While I acknowledge the time and effort, it's to no end if the books can't be trusted. Moreover, the clear implication that the uploader thinks the general reader is too stupid to understand a common English word in context is offensive. And if that puts me in the tinfoil-hat brigade, so be it. |
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