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 again from our friend from baltimore,
edgar allen poe, this time volume 1 of his collected works.

here's the scan for page 29:
>   http://www.archive.org/stream/worksofedgaralle01poee#page/29

here's the o.c.r. for the whole book:
>   http://ia341314.us.archive.org/0/items/worksofedgaralle01poee/worksofedgaralle01poee_djvu.txt

and here's the o.c.r. for page 29:
>
>   THE POETIC PRINCIPLE 29
>
>   work more thoroughly dignified, more supremely
>   noble, than this verj^ poem, this poem per se, this
>   poem which is a poem and nothing more, this
>   poem wi'itten solely for the poem's sake.
>
>   With as deep a reverence for the True as ever
>   inspired the bosom of man, I would nevertheless
>   limit, in some measure, its modes of inculcation.
>   I would limit to enforce them. I would not en-
>   feeble them by dissipation. The demands of
>   Truth are severe. She has no sympathy with
>   the myrtles. All that which is so indispensable
>   in Song is precisely all that with which she has
>   nothing whatever to do. It is but making her a
>   flaunting paradox to wreathe her in gems and
>   flowers. \ln^ enforci ng a truth we need severity
>   rather than etilo rescence "o? lans;uage . We^ miist
>   be'simple, prec ise,"l:erse. We^QUst pe cooL c^ItQ:
>   ummp assioned." In a word, "we must be in that
>   mood wJiicli, as nearly as possible, isjtlia exaoj^
>   converse of the poe tical . He must be blind in-
>   deed who does not perceive the radical and chas-
>   mal difference between the truthful and the
>   poetical modes of inculcation. He must be
>   theory-mad beyond redemption who, in spite of
>   these differences, shall still persist in attempting
>   to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of
>   Poetry and Truth.
>
>   Dividing the world of mind into its three most
>   immediately obvious distinctions, we have the
>   Pure Intellect, Taste, and the Moral Sense. I
>   place Taste in the middle because it is just this
>   position which in the mind it occupies. It holds
>   intimate relations with either extreme ; but from

once again, we have patron-inflicted annotations on this page,
a few sentences which've been underlined.  but if you examine
the o.c.r. throughout the page, you'll also find errors elsewhere.

mostly i choose this page because i was struck by the irony that
the passages which people underline are likely quite meaningful;
yet their underlining can cause o.c.r. to _miss_ that very passage.

-bowerbird