[Heron]

There's a lot to love about this book. I've recommended it to people often. Now, though, I see there's a reissue of it from 2013 that has been "updated and modernized". I appreciate that the material is clear while being engagingly written, and I worry that a rework would lose some of that. (...but I also appreciate that some of the language could be obscure to the modern reader, and what's the point in a "classic" that nobody can read anymore?)

Anyone care to make a recommendation on whether it's worth seeking out and/or avoiding vs. the original edition, or if it's all good either way?

[CamHenry]

I've not read the original, but the "update" is still very clearly written. The modernisation that I could see related to presentation of hand diagrams, etc., and possibly a couple of obsolete colloquialisms.