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03-25-2014, 04:45 PM | #19 | |
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If I'm reading the OP's concern correctly, his worry is that a malicious hacker could replace the copy of an ebook at Amazon/B&N/wherever with a doctored version. That seems to me to be a possibility, but not one worth losing sleep over. I guess the instance of "kindle" being replaced with "nook" in a copy of War and Peace sold at B&N is something akin to the issue the OP is worried about (Huffington Post story) |
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03-25-2014, 07:29 PM | #22 | |
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It's easy if you know there's a reason to run such a program. But if I were to download The Three Musketeers (for instance) from here, I'd assume that it was the same text as on Project Gutenberg. I could easily check that it was, of course, but I wouldn't actually bother to check unless I had reason to believe that it was necessary.
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03-25-2014, 09:38 PM | #24 | |
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What do you mean when you say "the correct version" when you're talking about a translated book like "The Three Musketeers"?
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03-26-2014, 04:16 AM | #26 | |
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The point is that if you have multiple copies of an ebook, it's easy to tell if the text differs, but it may not be easy to know which text is the original. |
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Go to archive.org and check out the scan. (Or go to a library which has a first edition - if the first edition is what you want; there's still the possibility that the publisher botched that one up and there's a later, better, more complete edition of the translation...)
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If I spent my time worrying about things like this, it would take away my enjoyment of the book. So, I don't spend time worrying. I just read.
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