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Originally Posted by HarryT
Pynch - do you mean that you don't proof-read your books, or that you make your editions precisely match what you proof against, errors and all?
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Depends. As my
Complete Works collections often have thousands of pages, I do not proof-read the single books when they are sourced from more or less reliable sites (Gutenberg, Adelaide University, for example). For those I only check and correct the paragraph and character formatting.
For ocr’d scans it’s different, of course. I usually proof-read them and correct in my text only what’s different from the scans (all of the Virginia Woolf diaries and letters), but sometimes I only do double spell-checks (De Quincey, for example). If I live to be 250 years, I’m gonna revise them all, but for the time being, I prefer to make all of the texts of an author available instead of only some of them perfect. The certified HarryT-approachİ with word-by-word and line-by-line comparisons I have only used for the pre-published
Finnegans Wake chapters so far.
ETA:
So in my original answer it should have read “In my collections I only fix mistakes if I spot them and they are different from the source.”