Re: word limits and revision

In article <e6k833hg3ark6hh30sfdlq9mnthkkpe3qa@xxxxxxx>
cylise@xxxxxxxxx "Cyli" writes:

When I was a kid there were still the Reader's Digest Condensed
books around. [...] When I read a book of theirs that I'd
read in the full version, I'd be looking for the cuts. Never
noticed any. I never had the opportunity (or at least never
made the opportunity) to do a side by side, though.

RD had some skilled people doing the abridgement. Frex, in 1973
IIRC I met David ("D.G.") Compton, who admitted to being one.
--
Andrew Stephenson

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