for 32 days, i am showing samples of the problems with the text in e-books from the internet archive... *** one of the most creative cats of the last 500 years is jules verne. i want some of what _he_ was smoking! so let's look at "around the world in 80 days" for our example today of what's wrong with archive.org text. here's the scan of page 55
http://www.archive.org/stream/tourofworldineig00vernrich#page/55
here's the o.c.r. of the entire book:
http://ia361301.us.archive.org/1/items/tourofworldineig00vernrich/tourofworl... and here's the o.c.r. of page 55:
TOUR OF THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DA 78. 55
out ofj>rder his mechanism, so wonderfully organ- ized. I Then he played at whistT/ For he found companions as devoted to it as himself ; a collector of taxes, who was going to his post at Goa ; a min- ister, the Eev. Decimus Smith, returning to Bom- bay ; and a brigadier-general of the English army, who was rejoining his corps at Benares. These three passengers had the same passion for whist as Mr. Fogg, and they played for entire hours, not less quietly than he.
[As for Passepartout, seasickness had taken no holci on him. He occupied a forward cabin, and eafc conscientiously. It must be said that the voy- age made under these circumstances was decidedly not unpleasant to himTj He rather liked his share of it. [Well fed and well lodged, he was seeing the country, and besides he asserted to himself that all this whim would end at Bombay. j [The next day after leaving Suez it was not without a certain pleasure that he met on deck the obliging jgerson whom he had addressed on landing in Egypt./
I" I am not mistaken," he said, on approaching him with his most amiable smile, " you are the very gentleman that so kindly served as my guide in Suez?"
"Indeed," replied the detective, "I recognize you ! You are the servant of that odd English- man "
" Just so, monsieur "
"Fix."
u Monsieur Fix," replied Passepartout. " De-
there you go. i'll let y'all do the commentary on this one... -bowerbird