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Was the original book poorly edited or was the translation to digital formats a problem? There were several places where words were off in ways that looked like a bad computer scan result, like b-o-r-n was written as b-o-m.

Douglas I think you nailed it as a problem with a scan. My experience proofreading for Project Gutenberg these kinds of errors from scans are pretty common. N…moreI think you nailed it as a problem with a scan. My experience proofreading for Project Gutenberg these kinds of errors from scans are pretty common. Now the question is that in this day and age why did they have to use a scan to create a digital edition? Didn't they already have digital versions of the originals?(less)

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