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(If there is any mistake, please apologize, English isn't my first language.)

The cover:
It shows the engravement of 'Franz Horn' (black and white; taken from the printed edition of 1839, inside) with a red border on which I put at the top the name of the author and at the bottom the title (the name 'Franz Horn'), font-face of both OFL Sorts Mill Goudy. This is how I designed it.

The remark (page 4 of the ebook) and the note at the end of the book (both certainly removed):
I put my name followed by '04/2016' and 'mobilread.com' at the bottom of both.
The remark gives information about:
The text follows the wording of the printed edition of 1839; the original orthography is kept; typos corrected, titles or subtitles added by me, page numbers of the original edition added, and anything else added marked by square braquets; and it names the source of the engravement embodied in the cover.

The formatting besides what everyone could have done:

page numbers of the original edition added:
followed by a colon, grey, in italics, in square brackets, put in the text-lines, if necessary at the end of the last paragraph of the preceeding page, pattern [179:], sometimes at the head of the new page, the colon shows the beginning of the new page; hyphenation reversed, the longer part of the word decides if it appears on the old or the new page;

footnotes (there are only a few):
they are put under the paragraphs they belong to, smaller characters; separated by a short line above and beneath from the text;

verses:
smaller characters, indenting follows the original form;

vignettes at the end of the chapters:
formed of normal characters, pattern e.g.:
----- ----oo--oo---- ;

titles and subtitles added:
appear also in the table of contents; characters in the text are
bigger, italics, in square brackets.
_______

I think it's the bundle of characteristics which marks the ebook I formatted.
My objective is to offer an ensemble of text which is easy to read and may serve as an reliable source for scholars as well.

The cover isn't really changed, there is a new cover, the second page still gives the former (my) cover.

When I was looking over the instant preview at Kobo's I could find these characteristics and establish that almost anything besides the font-face and the removed page 4 (the remark) was conform to what I published at MR. Even the transcript I put (in square brackets) at the bottom of the engraving (inside) is the same, I made it because the handwriting is something difficult to make out.

I studied several books of 'Franz Horn', which led me to his biography by Caroline Bernstein, and I found it interesting and worth of publishing it, having published prior to this book one of his five literary histories (Umrisse zur Geschichte und Kritik...) and one of his novels (Die Dichter. 3 vol.) at MR.

Finally,
stealing a public domain book does certainly not make sense, this is right if only the text was ripped. I don't have any objection if this biography is downloaded from MR without any charge, this why I put it into MR's library.

On the other hand, selling such a book, selling only the text without any characteristic formatting (means to me make it easy to read and reliable) doesn't make more sense. This is, however, what Kbook should have done, offering 1€99 to anyone who agreed to download his completely ripped and poorly formatted version. - In other words: An ebook which gives only the pure text isn't as much attractive to those persons.