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hamlet53, I would much, much, much rather have a poorly OCRed digital version of a book that has blatantly not passed through the eyeballs of even a single proofreader than no digital version at all. Hell, that's mostly what I already have! Many of them weren't that cheap, either. They were more expensive than a used copy and similar to a new copy, for the most part.
This doesn't have to be either/or. Sales of the poorly OCRed version could be used both to determine whether a cleaner version is worth funding, and also to fund that cleaner version.
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