Old Urth vs. New Urth

Greetings: I have "Urth" in the origina four-volume set from Timescape (Pocket Books, those were the days!). Is there any reason to get the new Tor/Orb omnibus editions? Text that was excised put back in? Corrected errors? Etc. Thanks! Fred Kiesche (FPK3) My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water. (Mark Twain, "Notebook") Over 7,000 postings served! See The Eternal Golden Braid (http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/ ).

Fred Kiesche asks:

There are no significant divergences that I've ever noticed. Some typos are corrected, some retained, some introduced perhaps. The omnibus is missing the poetic epigram for Citadel of the Autarch (Kipling, "At two-o'clock in the morning..."). I recall also that there's a spuriously repeated passage late in Citadel in the original that's corrected in the Tor edition. I haven't conducted a detailed comparison, but I have read the old paperbacks several times and have compared any text that strikes me as different while reading the Tor editions. I made marginal pencil notes of thes (whether they turned out to be differences or not), and could flip through and list them if there's any demand. You might also consider whether the physical state of your originals will sustain your intended level of future use. -- Dan Rabin