for 32 days, i am showing samples of the problems
with the text in e-books from the internet archive...

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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/tourofworldineig00vernrich_djvu.txt

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