The differences between archive.org and gutenberg.org are vast IMHO. The former may have more titles, but they're just OCR'd scans, and some of them nearly ille

The differences between archive.org and gutenberg.org are vast IMHO. The former may have more titles, but they're just OCR'd scans, and some of them nearly illegible. On the flip side, gutenberg.org is a curated list, sometimes heavily so. For instance, the following quotes are from the intro/header for Macbeth, by W. Shakespeare [1]: "Project Gutenberg Etexts are usually created from multiple editions, all of which are in the Public Domain in the United States, unless a copyright notice is included." But also incredible attention to details when proof reading: "As I understand it, the printers often ran out of certain words or letters they had often packed into a "cliche"... this is the original meaning of the term cliche... and thus, being unwilling to unpack the cliches, and thus you will see some substitutions that look very odd... such as the exchanges of u for v, v for u, above... and you may wonder why they did it this way, presuming Shakespeare did not actually write the play in this manner.... The answer is that they MAY have packed "liue" into a cliche at a time when they were out of "v"'s. . .possibly having used "vv" in place of some "w"'s, etc. This was a common practice of the day, as print was still quite expensive, and they didn't want to spend more on a wider selection of characters than they had to. You will find a lot of these kinds of "errors" in this text, as I have mentioned in other times and places, many "scholars" have an extreme attachment to these errors, and many have accorded them a very high place in the "canon" of Shakespeare. My father read an assortment of these made available to him by Cambridge University in England for several months in a glass room constructed for the purpose. To the best of my knowledge he read ALL those available... in great detail... and determined from the various changes, that Shakespeare most likely did not write in nearly as many of a variety of errors we credit him for, even though he was in/famous for signing his name with several different spellings. So, please take this into account when reading the comments below made by our volunteer who prepared this file: you may see errors that are "not" errors.... So...with this caveat...we have NOT changed the canon errors, here is the Project Gutenberg Etext of Shakespeare's The Tragedie of Macbeth." [1] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2264 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2264