for 32 days, i am showing samples of the problems with the text in e-books from the internet archive... *** today's example is from jack london's classic "white fang". here's the scan for page 7:
http://www.archive.org/stream/whitefanglondon00jackrich#page/7
and here's the o.c.r. for the whole book:
http://ia331319.us.archive.org/1/items/whitefanglondon00jackrich/whitefanglo... and here's the o.c.r. for page 7:
THE TRAIL OF THE MEAT 7
At the fall of darkness they swung the dogs into a cluster of spruce trees on the edge of the water way and made a camp. The coffin, at the side of the fire, served for seat and table. The wolf-dogs, clustered on the far side of the fire, snarled and bick ered among themselves, but evinced no inclination to stray off into the darkness.
* Seems to me, Henry, they re stayin remarkable close to camp," Bill commented.
Henry, squatting over the fire and settling the pot of coffee with a piece of ice, nodded. Nor did he speak till he had taken his seat on the coffin and be gun to eat.
i They know where their hides is safe," he said. "They d sooner eat grub than be grub. They re pretty wise, them dogs."
Bill shook his head. "Oh, I don t know."
His comrade looked at him curiously. "First time I ever heard you say anythin about their not bein wise."
"Henry," said the other, munching with delibera tion the beans he was eating, "did you happen to notice the way them dogs kicked up when I was a-feedin em?"
"They did cut up more n usual," Henry acknowl edged.
"How many dogs ve we got, Henry?"
"Six."
as we can see here, this book has missing apostrophes, some missing hyphens on end-of-line-hyphenates, and exhibits some problems with opening-doublequotes... you will remember the missing apostrophes and hyphens are caused by a workflow glitch, not by the o.c.r. itself, so we might also expect that the em-dashes are missing too, since that is another aspect of that glitch, and sure enough, a look at other pages (like 10 and 12) show that flaw as well. -bowerbird