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Originally Posted by pstjmack
I guess all this answers my original question of how come this doesn't seem to be available as a Public Domain ebook. Thanks all for your endeavours!
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Well, all the above is pretty standard fare for working from a scan. What makes this one particularly tedious is that the geniuses who prepared the scan have slapped their "Digitized by Genius. Original from the University of Idiocy" line over the last one or two lines of text on every friggin' page, so that I basically have to type those in by hand because the OCR can't pick them up. Add vertical shadows next to the text on many pages, which the OCR interprets as "I"s and other interesting things, and preparing this as an e-text means reading the whole book on-screen, epub and pdf side by side.
Which wouldn't be a problem if I still found it as exciting towards the middle as at the beginning, but the way the protagonist is presented as the only person in the world who has a clue, and all the others as bigoted idiots, is getting less and less funny by the page. (No wonder the book appealed to D.H. Lawrence...) Long story short: Given that there is an ebook version available for three euros, which, from having a look at the preview in the Kobo store, looks very clean and well-made, I guess I am about to give up. Sorry.
http://www.valancourtbooks.com/hadri...enth-1904.html
There's a recent Penguin edition as well, also available as an ebook:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/3062...n-the-seventh/