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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
I'm not saying you don't; quite the opposite, in fact.
You'll notice that recent Project Gutenberg books -- basically, any that have been through the Distributed Proofreading Project -- are much superior in quality to most backlist commercial ebooks. And they are at times working with books hundreds of years old, victims of age and worn type. They're proofread by humans -- why not go do a page? That makes all the difference. That's where the human eye is needed: checking the scan against the original. Not in reading through a computer file and clicking "bold" every time you see [bold text starts here].
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A good point to note is that at Project Gutenberg most documents go through several rounds of proofreaders to ensure that as few as possible errors get through the system. It does not seem to be that case for many ebooks, some of those errors seem like they should have been caught on a second or third reading.
Amy