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Originally Posted by Karl Murks
You draw the completely wrong conclusion from this because you only can guarantee that you proofed against the one version of the text you have but how do you know that this version is complete?
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I don't, of course, but a commercially published book is unlikely to have the issue with missing text that plagued the early "Project Gutenberg" texts that were typed in by hand, where the transcriber would not infrequently skip over sentences, paragraphs, or even complete pages.
For example, when I was proofing my eBook edition of Charles Dickens's "The Old Curiosity Shop" I found two places in the book where a complete double page of text had been omitted. Nearly all the free or low-cost eBook editions you'll find of "The Old Curiosity Shop" have this error in them.