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Originally Posted by Faterson
We're off-topic here, so I'll keep this reply as brief as possible. Can you point me to a specific upload or two of yours that you're particularly proud of?  I tried to find some of your uploads but failed, there are just too many. I don't deny there are some properly done EPUB editions of classics, but they are more exceptions than the rule. Let me stress the problem is two-fold:
- typos and/or formatting
- bad source
It's often item no. 2 that causes modern EPUB editions to be not usable for serious literary scholars. The volunteer digitizers are admirable people, but they just frequently take whatever modern paper edition is most accessible to them, and digitize that one. Unfortunately, it's rare that a truly original edition is available to a volunteer digitizer (for reasons mentioned earlier). What typically happens, is that a modernized edition of a classic gets digitized, making it not usable for literary scholarship. My pet peeve is "modernized" (I prefer to call it bastardized) punctuation, with commas (and others) willfully removed from the original text or inserted into it, just to conform to some imaginary "modern standard" and its expectations.  |
Try my upload of "Sense and Sensibility". It's the 1st edition text, with original spelling and punctuation.
Mobi ePub