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Originally Posted by Anais9000
The proofreading of Gutenberg texts is atrocious if not nonexistent.
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That's a little unfair.
Books done by PG in the last couple of years, virtually all of which have come through the Distributed Proofreaders project, are generally pretty well proofread. It tends to be the older works, many of which were manually typed, that are poor. Unfortunately it was the best-known books which got added to PG first, and hence these are the ones which are of the poorest quality.
For example, I've just finished reading four "Dr. Thorndyke" books by R. Austin Freeman. Three of them were virtually flawless; the fourth was full of errors.