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Old 05-19-2010, 05:07 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
I uploaded an unillustrated version of Gulliver's Travels some time ago (ePub and PDF). It's based on the Project Gutenberg version, but I read the whole book and made some (I think they were not many) corrections. Maybe you can use the text as a source and work only on the illustrations.
It's always useful, if at all possible, to get more than one (independant) electronic version of the text. The massage them into the same format, and do a text compare. With different OCR and proofing, the result of the comparison is usually a lot better than either source text.

That's what I did for my version of Kim - although I used about three source electronic texts, and double-checked with a good quality paper copy, and a scan of a later edition.

A task made more difficult because Kipling made subtle changes to the work in various editions between its publication in 1900 and the last version he edited, published in 1937.

But it /is/ worth it,to end up with a really clean text.
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