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The modern PG stuff is fine, Steve. The problem occurs with the older books - those which were typed in, not scanned.
A classic example (no pun intended) is Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop". I used the PG text as the basis for the fully-proofed version I've uploaded here, and, while proofing it, came across two cases where a complete double page of text was missing, several missing paragraphs, and innumerable missing sentences, obviously where the person typing it in had skipped over text in the book. And that's before we even get to the usual typos, missing accents and italics, and all the other formatting issues that needed fixing.
And most of the free versions of "Curiousity Shop" are based on that PG text.
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