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Originally Posted by Xenophon
The example he chose for later than 10K is not a DP book.
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My apologies for choosing a book that was not produced by DP.
To test your assertion about the quality of DP books, I selected a book at random from the list of books completed by DP on their own Completed Books page, and chose a random chapter, Chapter 10, and read two chapters.
Title: The Inheritors
Author: Joseph Conrad
Ford M. Hueffer
Release Date: February 3, 2005 [EBook #14888]
Produced by Clare Boothby, Graeme Mackreth and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
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Here are the errors:
Tu veux me jouer centre elle.
Tu veux me jouer contre elle.
tu vas voir ce que fen vais faire
tu vas voir ce que j'en vais faire
With a smiling "Don't mention," I tried
With a smiling "Don't mention it," I tried
A has Coignet
A bas Coignet
He's getting touched by the Whites you know.
He's getting touched by the Whites, you know.
a vision of light, theatening, sinister
a vision of light, threatening, sinister
by-ways of an immense world they must do murder
by-ways of an immense world, they must do murder
I must have dine with it all;
I must have done with it all;
laying down their priceless lives to root out ... to root our...
laying down their priceless lives to root out ... to root out...
It didn't matter to me.
It didn't very much matter to me.
They rested on the vacuously Bonaparte prince,
They rested on the vacuous Bonaparte prince,
"Oh, you may speak French," she said carelessly.
"Oh, you may speak French," she said, carelessly.
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This seems better than the examples given previously, but that's because I explicitly selected examples of poor proofreading earlier. This seems typically bad, exactly as would be expected of a randomly selected example.
I would be delighted to receive a private message from you, or a public message, or mail at anais9000 at babblebooks DOTT com, if DP would be interested in adding this technology for assisted proofreading to their site. As an example, I used it to knock off about 200 pages on their site (as Anais9000) yesterday and today.