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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Depends on the length/density + complexity (Footnotes, Tables, Figures/Images, Charts, Captions, Floating Elements, Equations, [...]) add to the amount of work needed...
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The obvious stumbling block is expense. I don't think I could afford to hire a person to do a quality proof-reading job, unless I hired someone from another country (e.g. India). But if a person was able to revise and sell a few public domain books and get some cash inflow, then it would definitely save an enormous amount of time to hire someone to do the first proof-reading and fix as many mistakes and omissions as possible.
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Side Note: I took a quick look through those Archive.org scans and it seems like this State Flags book just has a ton of Footnotes (~900). The images all just seem to be consolidated on a handful of pages. Besides that, doesn't look like anything particularly difficult (~181k words).
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Exactly, there are many public domain books of fair quality that could be dramatically improved with a minimum of effort.
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Side Note #2: Not too sure if you caught this typo (or if it is in your edition of the book):
Page 53: par. 2: petitioned
When, in 1854, the residents of that section of the country now known as Arizona petioned Congress to make this district a territory, they suggested the following names by which it might be called: Pimeria, Gadsoma, and Arizona.
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Wow, you have sharp eyes. I caught that mistake, and a few others. The author has a few odd (or perhaps outdated) conventions that I didn't change, just to preserve the character of the original.
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Yeah, that is another sign of scammers, go read the reviews and see if they look absolutely fake + generic. Many of these scammers pay for reviews and they are written in horrible English, very short, or blatantly obvious it has nothing to do with the book:
"Wow, great book!"
"I love the twist at the end."
"This book are very good read!"
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Those sound like the posts on my WordPress blogs.
Actually, some of the book reviews I read were fairly lengthy and informative. I even took notes from some of them.