>Bought a couple of classics >Noticed a lot of punctuation mistakes (missing stops, random capital letters, dialogue hyphenation is all weird) >m>rn, fl>fi, etc. >Realize nobody cared to look if the OCR software fucked up the ligatures. I'll refrain from buy cheap editions ever again.

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Anonymous Tue Apr 6 23:16:07 2010 No.525698 [Reply] [Original]

>Bought a couple of classics
>Noticed a lot of punctuation mistakes (missing stops, random capital letters, dialogue hyphenation is all weird)
>m>rn, fl>fi, etc.
>Realize nobody cared to look if the OCR software fucked up the ligatures.

I'll refrain from buy cheap editions ever again.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 23:19:07 2010 No.525711 Which editions? I'm keeping a list of publishers to avoid.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 23:20:07 2010 No.525712 It's how the wrote back in the day

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 23:24:27 2010 No.525738 >>525712 I don't think it'd be of any help since they were Spanish editions. However, I do remember seeing a couple of OCR issues with my copy of 'No Longer Human' and 'The Setting Sun' published by New Directions.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 23:26:07 2010 No.525753 >>525711 I don't think it'd be of any help since they were Spanish editions. However, I do remember seeing a couple of OCR issues with my copy of 'No Longer Human' and 'The Setting Sun' published by New Directions.

Anonymous Wed Apr 7 00:43:07 2010 No.526071

Funny story.

19th C German scholars spent lifetimes sorting out the lineage of Medieval Latin manuscripts by looking for errors interpolated by scribes.

They got as close as anyone could to a perfect reproduction of what was originally written.

My library replaced a missing volume VIII of a series with a print-on-demand OCR'd copy. OCR generated hundreds of errors.

Right back where we started.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 7 00:55:07 2010 No.526102 >>526071 it'll give some Lit grads something to do besides serving fries.

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