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Originally Posted by HarryT
Do you mean "proofed by the book creator"? What I do personally is that, while I'm reading the book, I mark any pages with errors, then go back and fix them and re-post the book. What do you do?
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Yep, some indication of the work the contributor has done on the source text. I've only posted a couple of books so far; but I've tried to proof both of them.
I started off reading the etext and comparing each paragraph to a pbook (or a different PD etext - a comparison utility makes it easier than using a pbook, but you need to be sure it's a truly different source). But it was a very slow process (my hat goes off to contributors who've done hundreds!! of books
); I ended up just reading the etext, and only checking if I thought I spotted a problem.
One of the etexts I worked on didn't have many spelling issues, but a lot of punctuation was missing - making it a cumbersome read - it took several days to go through it, checking against a pbook version.
I think some errors are always likely to creep through, but a note of the work done is reassuring if you spot an issue in the first few pages - you'll know if further problems with the source text are likely to have been spotted or not.