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Originally Posted by rozie123
Does this mean that I will have to go through the digitized version line by line, page by page, looking for errors? I am getting the Sony PRS 505. Is there a search feature that will help me check for errors?
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I'm quite new to this too, but it seems most people source from Project Gutenberg, where the texts may have some inaccuracies resulting from the OCR process.
There is also the Distributed Proofreaders site which produces checked text - I'd visit there first, as the texts are likely to be cleaner.
Another method is to download separate public domain texts of the same work, and run a text comparison to show where mismatches occur. You could then use your own judgement to select the correct version (usually the error is obvious), or refer to another version (if possible) to arbitrate.
The tricky part is to find two genuinely different sources (rather than two that have the same origin, and the same inaccuracies).