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Originally Posted by speakingtohe

When I was young my grandparents had literally 100's of Readers Digest books, each of which contained several books in condensed form.

I was a bit disappointed when I found out that condensed meant I was not getting the whole book, but up to the time I enjoyed them. I was pretty around thirteen when I read a book the I had previously read in Readers Digest book and I found it a lot better.

Still many people liked the Readers Digest books because they were condensed.

Well, the Reader's Digest books are versions of works where parts are actually missing. The short bios would at least be complete original books (I presume), and really all biographies are condensed accounts. A truly unabridged account of someone's life would be quite lengthy.

[Grace Elliot]

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

When I was young my grandparents had literally 100's of Readers Digest books, each of which contained several books in condensed form.


Still many people liked the Readers Digest books because they were condensed.


Helen

This brings back memories! My gran used to have loads of Readers Digests and keep them in a mahogany sideboard along with her Mills and Boon books from the library! I only found out the other day that my Mum didn't realise Gran read M & B !