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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Agreed. One thing that pleases me is the efforts of folks like HarryT to go back and make corrected editions of some of this stuff that was poorly proofed when first created. Of course, it requires someone like HarryT with a love for that particular content who wants to see it as perfect as possible and is willing to contribute the time and effort. I'm afraid some poorly proofed stuff will languish because there won't be anyone who wants to take on the task of fixing it.
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Dennis
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The PG version of "Oliver Twist" really is dire. Not only are there many hundreds of typos in it, but I discovered, when I proofed it against a printed version, that there were
dozens of cases in which the typist (it was an early PG contribution, hence manually typed in) had skipped sentences (largely in passages of dialogue), several omitted paragraphs, and one case where about half a page of text had been left out!
That's why, for the books which were typed rather than scanned, to get a decent copy I think it's important to proof it against the printed book, rather than simply correct the obvious errors in the eBook.
Unfortunately it was the most "famous" classics which (naturally) tended to get added to PG first, so they are often the books which are in the worst shape. The current stuff, being added by DP, is pretty good.