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Originally Posted by larrymohr
I am afraid your hope would die a lonely death.
My experience is the the "Big" publishers are the worst offenders when it comes to older titles. They are simply OCRed and not edited at all.
I have over 30 of the Nancy Drew books in epub and they all have many typos in them. Most have errors every chapter, the worst had 27 typos on a single screen of my KOBO!
On the other hand, Feedbooks.com and Baenebooks.com have very clean eBooks. I always go to Feedbooks first for public domain because I get nicely formatted books there.
Larry
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Feedbooks does have some nice formatting, but I wonder what source they use for public domain titles, and do they proof/edit them? Looking at a few titles, I see they do not have smart quotes, so I assume they started with Gutenberg text. Another similar source is
http://www.epubbooks.com/. I wonder the same thing about that site, do they just scrape from Gutenberg?
I've actually read a few of the Nancy Drew ebooks, and I did see some OCR errors, which I agree was very disappointing, especially considering the price they charge for those titles. The publisher was Grosset & Dunlop, so I don't know how they compare to other publishers. A quick glance through some of my classic ebook titles from major publishers shows the following:
Signet Classics
Barnes & Noble Classics
Penguin Classics
HarperCollins
I can't say how they compare in terms of proofing/editing.