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Originally Posted by dwig
Project Gutenberg ebooks are usually very carefully proof read and corrected. I've downloaded and read a very large number (>100) of PG's books over the last decade and a half and rarely encounter errors (none in downloads done in the last 5 years or so).
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As a matter of interest, how do you know that there were no errors? Let me give you an example: I am, as you may be aware, producing a collection of meticulously proofed edition of Dickens's work here at MR. In "The Old Curiosity Shop", there were two cases where a complete double page had been missed out from the PG text, but it just happened that they both were examples where the text read sensibly even with the omission.
How can you judge whether or not the text contains errors unless you do as I do and meticulously compare it, side by side, with a good printed edition?