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Originally Posted by KindleDude
by Poul Anderson entitled "The Man Who Came Early" that I picked up on manybooks.net. It's an excellent story set in Iceland at the time of the sagas (around 1000 A.D.), but the Kindle version has more typos than one would like--I'm trying to see if I can do better.
I'm very new at this and am working on a Mac (using Stanza to convert to Word format).
UPDATE: well, it turns out that two separate source texts I can find have similar typos. Most I'm pretty sure about fixing, but, just to be safe as well as complete, I found a used copy of the original collection in hardcover on Amazon and ordered it (it's from 1957--amazing, huh?).
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UPDATE: Wow, I just received the hardcover original and I am so glad I waited. It seems that the on-line versions have many more errors than I thought. Even the first couple of paragraphs, which I thought looked fine, have several errors. These all seem to be errors of character recognition (maybe during scanning?). Anyway, I've begun working on this excellent story again.