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Post scan, the readability varies a lot:
- the ocr gets hung-up over the signature at bottom of pages;
- the odd spot of mould, squashed fly etc doesn't help the process;
- being older texts, with older fonts, the ocr struggles ('lie' for 'the' eg);
- usual problems with hyphenation;
- confusion with single quotes and double quotes.
So, readability ranges from OK to Yukh!
But since I'm going to put it into Sigil anyway, I might as well make a good job of it. Being an anorak with pretensions to nerd-hood, I've kept a record (actually a database) of the time taken to create ebooks. I find that a pre-existing electronic text takes about 3 hours, including collection of graphics for front cover etc. Unsurprisingly, the full editing process from original paper takes about 9 hours. Plus unspecified amount of time to read properly and pick up the remaining typos.
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