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Originally Posted by cmbs
... I can't say that I've ever sat down and compared a real book line by line with a Gutenberg text, but the Gutenberg books I've read seem fine to me. Very good in fact.
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I recently did a book comparison. The biggest problem with the Gutenberg text, compared to the pbook, was loads of missing commas. This made some of the sentences in the PG version pretty cumbersome, and rather detracted from the reading experince (imho).
There were other issues such as missing quotes, unpaired brackets and the occasional missing word - I find these type of errors a bit of an irritant; but there weren't enough of them to make the PG text unreadable.
The good news, regarding books posted here, is that readers can feedback any issues they spot to posters - so the versions here should get even better over time.