[graycyn]

Dilemma: I've scanned, for personal use, a rare paperback (40-50 year old title) from my childhood. In the process of proofreading it and creating an epub book for my reader, I found a clear misprint.

My norm is to leave words as written by the author, including less common spellings, punctuation, all that. I change nothing.

But this is clearly a print error. There is a three sentence paragraph and the second sentence is not capitalized and is obviously incomplete.

Unfortunately, a hardcover copy, (which may or may not have the same misprint), might run $100, if found. So I'm not likely to get a chance at ever seeing what the author actually wrote.

While I'm making the epub for personal use, I may still share with my immediate family and I'd prefer no one else to have the annoying misprint encounter. So I'm thinking about completing the sentence. It would take five words to make it make sense again. And I thought I could use a linked endnote for the chapter to explain the change and also present the words "as printed".

Is this a reasonable solution or is it better to do the exact opposite, i.e. leave the misprint in place and use a note to explain what I think the missing words might have been?

Just curious how other book scanners handle things like this!