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Originally Posted by montsnmags
Another suspicion...because most of the public domain books I have been looking for are well-known classics, perhaps they were some of the earlier-scanned rather than "newly scanned".
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Even worse than that - all the oldest PG books were typed in by hand, and very often the typist skipped a sentence or even more. The very worst example I've come across is the PG version of Dickens' "Oliver Twist" which, proofing it against a printed version (the only way to properly proof a book) turned out to have dozens of missing sentences, a couple of missing paragraphs, and one case which half a page had been missed out!
The version of "Oliver Twist" we now have on MobileRead is properly proofed and complete. The PG version is dreadful.