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Harry should be hired as a consultant to many of these publishers who put out crappy-looking, error-riddled ebooks. And I DO mean crappy. End of OT rant. Don |
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Hi all,
I did not mean to diminish anyone's volunteer effort with this thread! I just love the idea of a single volume of all her work, some of which I had never even heard of ... probably because work lile her History of England is not necessarily in high demand... |
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Thanks for posting, xendula, but really the little I looked at was a mess, with hyphens thrown in randomly, after semicolons and colons, before and after quotation marks, a-piece, a-year. This would drive me nuts to try to read. |
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^ Good to know, and unacceptable once they start charging for it - I have not looked at it yet.
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I read a lot of 19th century novels, so I guess I'm just used to it. Punctuation wasn't used in the same way 200 years ago that it is now.
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This collection, by the way, has the same errors and omissions that most free versions do. Eg from Chapter XXX of "Mansfield Park", we have this non-sensical sentence:
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This version also "corrects" Love and Freindship to "Friendship."
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Very glad to have Austen's most famous novels in the original spelling and punctuation styles and truer to the pre-scanned text, Harry.
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I agree entirely; I dislike "modernised" versions myself. Austen used spellings like "shew" and "chuse" - that's what I want to see, not editors who want to "help" me by changing to modern spellings.
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Naturally it's EUR 2.05 / GBP 1.64 (~ USD 2.70) for us Europeans, so I think I'll stick with the Goodreads files for the time being.
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