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After stopping laughing I went back and checked the Standard Ebooks corpus to see if any of this mistake had slipped through; luckily it seems that in the inter
by robin_reala 8y ago
After stopping laughing I went back and checked the Standard Ebooks corpus to see if any of this mistake had slipped through; luckily it seems that in the intervening 9 years someone at Gutenberg and / or archive.org has corrected this particular issue in the source transcriptions.
- mcguire 8y agoGutenberg is designed to avoid this sort of thing, although some slip through: originally, they didn't use OCR and now they use the distributed proofreader thing. Archive.org is kind of a mess, though.
- robin_reala 8y agoYeah, I usually submit about 10-15 corrections to Gutenberg per book I proof; generally they’re in good shape. The bigger problem with Gutenberg is that older books omit all accents, which is a huge problem for who series of books. I’ve been trying to produce Maurice Leblanc’s series of Arsène Lupin stories for Standard Ebooks and Gutenberg generally spells the titular protagonist’s name wrong.