Just as for curiosity, from Gutemberg's statement:
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From Wikipedia:
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Imho might this means that an audiobook can be made out of it?
@issybird was questioning, on a previous post (on another thread), why are there so many versions of an audiobook, if those things are possible to do that's a business lol (several versions by AI, from several version granted for free volunteers, fantastic
).
Besides that, "prepared" (like it's been wrote) is quite a weird term for "edit" - imho.
Internet Archive has at least two copies of the book you mentioned, not sure if those are too poor scans, but there are downloads options (one as 1,5 GB).
Edit: @Quoth: even if a Gutemberg version is an
edit from a Publisher, which might have put a shortened version from Original, or whatever, but there are several edits throught the time...*
Idk but if that's just for to sell
a book that has 200 pages left, to make it cost 8.40$ instead 10.20$...omg.
*wouldn't be that bad to see the list of changes, maybe?