I rarely enter gutvol-d discussions, though I follow them. I did place a number of texts on Gutenberg some years ago (James Fenimore Cooper and Susan Fenimore Cooper), but in more recent years have placed Cooper texts on my own James Fenimore Cooper Society website where I can easily correct them. On this discussion, I would not that it is not just a question of transcribed text and/or images, but also frequently of editions. For a writer like James Fenimore Cooper it is not just a question of accuracy of transcription (and imposition of publishers' editorial styles) in the numerous editions made of his works, but also that he frequently made significant changes in his novels in new editions published during his lifetime. This is presumably true of many other writers. So even the "first edition" is not always the "best edition." On page numbering, it is my custom to include page numbers from the edition I am transcribing by placing them in {curly brackets} -- a typographical form I don't otherwise use. This makes it easy for the user not only to determine what page he is "on" in the electronic version, but also to look for specific page numbers, or provide citations to them, easily. To further complicate the edition issue, the Modern Language Association has developed a fairly rigid style form for editions bearing its seal of approval, which results in a synthetic (and hence copyrighted) version which (to make a long matter short) combines the latest text on which the author is known to have worked, with the earliest form (ideally the manuscript) for his spelling, punctuation, and other stylistic matters that usually get changed by publishers to suit their own style manuals. In the case of JF Cooper these editions have been issued in the so-called "Cooper Edition" -- first by the SUNY Albany Press and more recently by AMS, but have been licensed to other publishers such as Library of America, Oxford, and Penguin. Problems of this sort are going to plague the Gutenberg editions of almost any author of the 19th century or earlier, but I have not seen them raised in this discussion. Hugh MacDougall, Secretary/Treasurer James Fenimore Cooper Society 8 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326-1016 jfcooper@stny.rr.com http://www.oneonta.edu/external/cooper