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Old 10-01-2007, 04:20 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
If you look at Gutenberg text you will still find quite a few errors in the text. It is certainly not easy to find them all. Someone (probably more that one person) has to basically read the entire text and has to be alert to the kinds of errors that appear and in many cases you also need to have the original book present and go look it up. There are lots more problems in text that just a simple letter substitution in my experience.

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Actually they use volunteers and have multiple levels of proofreading and formating. You don't get the entire book. You only get one page. When you're done, it is turned in for the next level. Then you can get another page in that text or some other. It can be both enlightening and frustrating at the same time, trying to guess what you missed.
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