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Old 07-28-2016, 01:29 AM   #730
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At least with Archive.org they have the page images as well as the text (which I think is mainly there to provide the searchable text layer) so it's a good staring point for editing the text version.
That's what a lot of book uploaders to MR do all the time. I sometimes think most downloaders believe it's all just Gutenberg texts with a bit of make-up, but many books here have been done from Google scans found at the Internet Archive Google Books or Hathi Trust.

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I've done this on a couple of books using two computers, one with the image open (I tend to use the DJVU variant) and the other with the text that needs editing.
Two computers? Nice idea. I manage that on one: Right half of the monitor is Sigil, left half the pdf.
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