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Originally Posted by barryem
By the way, I used to be a volunteer proofer at Gutenberg and I don't agree that they do sloppy work. Every page is checked by at least 3 different proofers. I've also read a lot of Gutenberg books and I've found them to be better done than modern books from big publishers.
Barry
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Barry, as another volunteer proofer & content provider at Distributed Proofreaders, I'd like to point out that while most of the books at Project Gutenberg are scanned and proofed and formatted by several individuals, PG also accepts books from other volunteers. While DP tries to be faithful to specific original printings of books, this is not true of all PG works, and sometimes the PG book is even an almagam of different editions. The early works were also text only and lost all of the typographic features, like bold or italics for emphasis. It is my impression that the PG mobi and epub editions may be autogenerated from the text or html editions.