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Originally Posted by ficbot
Harry, I have downloaded some of your books and I appreciate the work you out into them. Have you checked out any of the Project Gutenberg titles from the Distributed Proofreaders team? Those allegedly get three passes by three sets of eyes per page. If you have seen them, has their quality been good?
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Yes, they seem pretty reasonable.
One of the problems with PG, though, is that the best-known classics tended to be the ones that were produced first, long before DP, and hence they are full of errors. As I mentioned, I'd estimate that I corrected over 3000 errors in "Our Mutual Friend" (most of which were things like missing commas, but a fair number were more serious).
The worst one I've done based on a PG text was "The Old Curiosity Shop" in which there were two places where a complete double page of text had been missed out - whoever scanned the book must have turned two pages by mistake. That's something that DP may very well NOT have picked up, because in both cases they were long passages of dialogue where it just so happened that the text still made sense even with the pages omitted.