[Anais9000]

I don't submit the errors to Gutenberg, because I have a database closing in on half a million errors. If I submitted them, each would go something like this:

PLEASE NOTE OBVIOUS ERROR:

Sir Thomas is very ill, and so also is Lady Fitzgerald
Sir Thomas is very well, and so also is Lady Fitzgerald

>> entirely likely to be variations in the edition, rather than errors from the text

Anyone who reads the book will see that no one is discussing anyone's health. Owen Fitzgerald is in effect saying, it's all VERY WELL to mention Sir Thomas, or Lady Fitzgerald, etc. etc. but blah blah blah

Instead, I'm trying to work my way in through DP so I can make the suggestion that
a) books not be submitted so quickly, and/or that
b) some channel is made available for correcting already submitted texts. [In this connection, your statement "DP doesn't have any special control after the point where they submit the book to PG" seems bizarre to me, since who does have control of the text, if not the submitter?] and/or
c) a better process, using digitally-generated audio, like the one I use, be added to DP.


You say: "Please ask that person to find similar errors in a text with a PG number over 10,000."

OK, here's a book by Trollope's mom:

Domestic Manners of the Americans
Author: Fanny Trollope
Release Date: November 30, 2003 [EBook #10345]

I took a quick look and found these -- which are hard to argue with, among many many many others which it's easy to argue with, if you're of a mind to. Though I guess I can expect to be told there are alternate versions where ships have "stem galleries" and "moutains" rise up from the sea.



every portly dame of the set is as exclusive in her principles as the excluded but amiable Quandroons

every portly dame of the set is as exclusive in her principles as a lady
patroness. The other set consists of the excluded but amiable Quandroons

and forms an admirable point of defence; I should suppose, no city could boast.

and forms an admirable point of defence; but in these piping days of peace, it is converted into a public promenade, and one more beautiful, I should suppose, no city could boast.


himself pretty well acquaninted with the point
himself pretty well acquainted with the point

and I except a good sight of them
and I expect a good sight of them

the distance of about a dozen yard from the spot
the distance of about a dozen yards from the spot

nor is this wish to profit by it all peculiar to the English
nor is this wish to profit by it, at all peculiar to the English

They are rarely very double,
They are very rarely double,

found among the moutains
found among the mountains

were below the stem gallery
were below the stern gallery

round a new corner, to aid him in
round a new comer, to aid him in

the aspects of the heavens by night
the aspect of the heavens by night

on the 26th January, 1828,
on the 26th of January, 1828,

seen growing in the water many feet deep
seen growing in water many feet deep

possession of it as soon at it could be got ready
possession of it as soon as it could be got ready

both to facilitate their construction and render them necessary
both to facilitate their construction and to render them necessary

glass of gin cocktail, or egging,
glass of gin cocktail, or egg-nog,

at any hour of night
at any hour of the night

on the other side the Atlantic
on the other side of the Atlantic

is impossible to imaging any thing more striking
is impossible to imagine any thing more striking

flame, brimestone, molten lead
flame, brimstone, molten lead

through the streets at nights,
through the streets at night,

quantities of this water-fruit
quantities of this watery fruit

the warlike manifesto called Declaration of Independence
the warlike manifesto called the Declaration of Independence

the grim store-like forests of Ohio.
the grim stove-like forests of Ohio.