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Originally Posted by HarryT
Some of the early "classics" posted to PG (in the pre-scanner days, when people used to type the books in) are in a pretty shocking state.
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Can you think of any examples off hand?
I wonder if there would be any interest in a few MRers getting together to correct such a classic. If someone wanted to format the book for the collection, I wouldn't mind proofing a few chapters of it (doing the whole book would be a bit much - but I'd prefer to proof it than format it, my formatting ain't very good
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Maybe several volunteers could do a few chapters each over a week, then the text could be recompiled and formatted for the collection. A bit like DP, although not as thorough procedurally - it would have the advantage of being a book people are quite likely to want to read.
(I do some proofing on DP - but a lot of their output is rather obscure, and you wonder if anyone will actually read it.)