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Originally Posted by HarryT
The trouble is, what you've bought will without question originate with PG and will hence be full of errors. That's why I've spent the last three years proof-reading Dickens in an attempt to produce a "complete works" that's as error-free as I can make it. Eg, while proof-reading "The Old Curiosity Shop" I found two instances where a complete double-page had been omitted from the book, not to mention a number of missing paragraphs, many missing sentences, and almost countless cases of missing or incorrect punctuation, quotation marks, accents, and other such minor things.
What you have is certainly good enough to read (although missing pages may leave you scratching your head about strange "jumps" in the story), but it's not very much use as an accurate reproduction of what the author actually wrote. That's why "free" public domain works (other than properly proofed ones, which are few and far between) haven't put imprints like Penguin Classics out of business.
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Just curious Harry, but did you submit your corrected versions back to Project Gutenberg or did you just upload them here?
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Bill