Classics Remastered

[Kevin Palm]

An interesting sponsored post showed up in my FB feed from an entity called "Classic Books Remastered," which apparently totally rewrites PD books (Probably using AI, but I'm not sure), and sells them through subscription or ala carte:

"The best stories ever written are sitting in the public domain, completely free, and almost nobody reads them because the language feels like homework. We fix that. Every remastered book keeps the original story completely intact, but swaps out the old prose for something you'd actually want to curl up with."

For each book, you can read both the original and their remastered to compare. What gave me a chuckle was that the book that was advertised in my feed was "Moby Dick," and their link to the "original" is the SE edition!

https://classicbooksremastered.com/book/30

[Alex Cabal]

What a very silly idea, though their "remastering" of Moby Dick Chapter
1 is very funny:

> With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I
quietly take to the ship.

becomes:

> Some guy in ancient Rome killed himself with a sword when things got
bad. Me? I just go find a ship instead.

Poor Cato, reduced to "some guy in ancient Rome"!

On 3/24/26 8:03 PM, Kevin Palm wrote:
> An interesting sponsored post showed up in my FB feed from an entity
> called "Classic Books Remastered," which apparently totally rewrites PD
> books (Probably using AI, but I'm not sure), and sells them through
> subscription or ala carte:
>

> *"The best stories ever written are sitting in the public domain,

> completely free, and almost nobody reads them because the language feels
> like homework. We fix that. Every remastered book keeps the original
> story completely intact, but swaps out the old prose for something you'd

> actually want to curl up with."*

>
> For each book, you can read both the original and their remastered to
> compare. What gave me a chuckle was that the book that was advertised in
> my feed was "Moby Dick," and their link to the "original" is the SE edition!
>
> https://classicbooksremastered.com/book/30
>

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[Kevin]

Right? :-D

[Alexander Keane]

Oh, wow. That's bad. Like, I see the reason for No Fear Shakespeare or the notes in my Folger Library Shakespeares (Shakespeare is the one author I have annotated editions of).

But that? Not an explanation of the reference that might be missed, but a mere deletion? That's just not it.

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