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Article: https://archive.is/wip/Qe8fe

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Imagine if we erased the Gulag Archipelago.

I have switched back to paper books exclusively after an experience with that book... Everyone started talking about it a few years ago so I bought a kindle copy to get up to speed. There were TONS of editor-added corrections of the content in parentheses after some paragraphs. Not small typos or historical tidbits that sometimes add to an older story, but full-on definition changes and bullshit that managed to completely distort what the original author was clearly talking about.

I paid money for the actually book. I didn't want to read a huffington post unpacking of the problematic material. If they were willing to do that to the text, how much of it did they outright remove???

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Pirate that shit. It's easy, cheap, and you can get un-fucked versions to read at your leisure.

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All of the really funky books are either going to be in the form of some obscure PDFs/scans or some old, dusty books.