Hm. I wonder what the changes are. I too lost my set of the "old" versions, alas. No idea what happened to it.
Personally, I never get rid of books, the above notwithstanding. There would have to be some serious reason (like, basically no choice) before I'd do so.
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With respect to changes being made in the text, I believe that is due to the alterations that went on between the British and American editions. Before 1994, there were some parts of the American texts that were significantly different from the original British counterparts. The American text was then revised to match the original British text in 1994, which I guess you could describe as 'fitting better with Lewis' original ideas'.
Edit: Is this
the sort of thing you mean?
edited 25th Oct '11 4:08:14 AM by Fiwen9430
^I like to keep the majority of my book collection because of that, actually. If you love reading enough, your bookshelf is like a history for you, tracing both the works you liked and the reasons why you enjoyed them. It's interesting to see what people read, and I don't particularly mind if others look at what I've read since childhood. They can judge me for my collection of Forgotten Realms novels/Wodehouse books/Italo Calvino obsession/natural history books or the weird juxtaposition of all of those however they wish.
I do like giving books away to friends and family. Particularly to my younger cousins, who will hopefully develop the same love of reading as I have.
"Doctor Who means never having to say you're kidding." - BocajI have the strangest combination of Nonfiction/Calvin and Hobbes/Les Miserables/Children's books/Nutjob Conservative Books My Grandma Gave Me/C. S. Lewis/The Far Side
Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.- If a book has degenerated into mulch I get rid of it. Or if it shows damage from bugs. Or why I have gone through five copies of To Kill A Mockingbird.
- If a book contains information that has been refuted by the passage of time I get rid of it. Stage Lighting and Scenery published in 1985 is no longer relevant.
- If the book is something that I read once and never looked at again after five years I get rid of it. Why did someone give me a novel where the big mystery was who killed the dog?
- If the book was something that somebody found in the dumpster behind the library and they brought it to me along with a bunch of other books and I have never read any of them and have moved them five times, I get rid of them.
- If the book was part of the Christmas gift exchange and I forgot I had it, I regift it. Goodbye, ''Twitterature".
Sadly, I never get rid of books. Video games, movies, supplies, I can get rid of them BUT I WILL NEVER GET RID OF ANY BOOKS.
This is why there are so many Nutjob Conservative books on my bookshelf: Half of them were given to me by friends and family, and while I refuse to read them(not out of hating the views, but out of hating bad literature) , I also refuse to get rid of them. I think they started breeding because I can no longer remember being given some of them.
Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.Classic and not so classic literature as if it were tweeted by the main characters. Examples
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This is me. The strongest action I will take for books I now despise (ie Terry Goodkind books) is to move them to my brother's bookshelf. I was absolutely furious when he lost my totally impractical and half-destroyed all-in-one-volume Lord of the Rings, even though i got his much nicer three-volume version in repayment. No matter how worthless the book is I refuse to get rid of it.
EDIT: Also, dont ever get rid of old video games. The amount of money I've spent repurchasing games I had as a kid numbers in the hundreds of dollars.
edited 27th Oct '11 8:06:21 PM by MrShine
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Okay, I admit that I LO Led at those, especially the Harry Potter ones.

From The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe page:
"Keep Circulating the Tapes: Because the books, for most their entire published history, were ordered in publishing order and only recently re-ordered by a different publisher, older volumes of the series that maintain the classic numbering go for a lot more money today than they used to.
...Goddammit.
The new editions massacring the text?
Not only that but I could always use some spare cash. I used to have an entire box set of the Narnia series in the original order, until I got rid of them in some way in order to clear room on my bookshelf for new books, reasoning that I could read them later. To this day I don't know where they are - they could be in retrievable storage but it's more likely I gave it to someone.
Goddammit.