i did some more work on gardner's book, "the advocate".

i continued to do preprocessing on the archive.org o.c.r.,
and posted the results on my website.  here's a sample url:
>   http://z-m-l.com/go/gardn/gardnp123.html

the number of lines that differ between the cleaned o.c.r.
and gardner's file has dropped to under 300, which is great,
since the book contains about 3,900 lines in it.  so it's <8%.
so again we show the stupidity of a word-by-word proofing.

i'm gonna go through one final round of preprocessing,
and then we'll set out to resolve the differences.  already,
however, i can tell that gardner did a very good job on it.
not perfect!  but certainly something to be quite proud of.

the (presumably incorrect) lines from the o.c.r. are in red,
while the lines from gardner's proofed copy are in blue...

if you prefer to view all the edits on one web-page, see:
>   http://z-m-l.com/go/gardn/gardn-hybrid5.html

i also included the preprocessing edits i made on page 126,
so you can get a feel for how little time i spent doing them...

-bowerbird