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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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Can some of these corrections be fed back to PG to fix these older books?
Dale