We are reading several of Stephenson’s works for a seminar, Readme included. As this is the early part of the 20th century, there is no one canonical edition of each text. Some are reading on Kindle or iOS devices where page numbering is fluid. Some are reading from second-hand paperbacks where there should be some fidelity. Others are listening via audio media. With Reamde the pattern is amplified. The publisher pulled two flavors of e-editions from marketplaces, one or two weeks after they first appeared in those markets. The reissue is now a 2.0 edition. This is text as software, complete with bug fixes. I wonder if my paper version is reliable. How can I verify it? Against what standard will I measure its fidelity?