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

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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/whitefanglondon00jackrich_djvu.txt

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