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Originally Posted by 1611mac
I mostly read classic works from the late 1700's to 1800's so my "books" are mostly ocr scans from places like google books, etc. These are free works so they have not been cleaned up.
Add to that that some are in "old english" which tends to drive OCR software nuts.
But thru it all... I am grateful to be able to read the works and most are surprisingly pretty easy to read.
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You know that many of the classics are available here at MR in carefully proof-read versions?
Books printed written in the 18th century are not "Old English", by the way. "Old English" died out around the 12th century, and refers to the language of such works as "Beowolf", the opening lines of which are:
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Hwæt! wē Gār-Dena in ġeār-dagum,
þēod-cyninga, þrym ġefrūnon,
hū ðā æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scēfing sceaþena þrēatum,
monegum mǣġþum, meodosetla oftēah,
egsode eorlas. Syððan ǣrest wearð
fēasceaft funden, hē þæs frōfre ġebād,
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which I'm sure you'll agree is not very like 18th century English.