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Originally Posted by RobertDDL
You are aware that Gutenberg is not necessarily using first editions? For instance, for "Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark" by Mary Wollstonecraft they use an edition from 1889 - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3529/3529-h/3529-h.htm
I've proofread it against the original 1796 edition. Gutenberg has not changed the text they've scanned, but that has already been done in 1889. It's simply not the case that texts go through centuries of publishing unchanged. Also, in most cases, we do not even know the author's original version, because that's already been changed by the editor of the first edition. OK, enough of this, I'm doing my thing, and you don't deem me competent and don't approve of it, let's leave it at that. |
We don't think you aren't competent. What's being said is to leave the spelling the way it is in whatever edition book you are making into an eBook. If there are mistakes because that's how it was back then, leave them be. If the wodring has changed since then, leave it be. Don't make any changes because you think what's there is wrong. If it's the way it was published then that's how we want to read it. So please don't fix what you think is wrong unless it is wrong because it doesn't match the way it was published.