Michael Hart wrote:
In addition, I should add the pretty much ALL the original PG eBooks came from multiple editions, simply to do better error checking.
How many of the PG texts fall into the category "the original PG eBooks"? There is, of course, a difference between consulting other sources to clarify a few things with the text derived from the primary source, and simply kludging together a bunch of different editions to form a "new edition". An example of how things got out of whack with the "original PG texts" is Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", where there are two quite different editions, and the version at PG is not even marked as to which edition it conforms with. It was a mistake to not include source information with the early PG texts (even if the work was a derivative.) Mistakes happen. Some of these mistakes can be corrected after-the-fact. And future works can do it right. No need to apologize for the past, Michael -- all projects make mistakes. The key is to learn from the mistakes and make the necessary changes in policies and procedures. (Am I correct in that the policy has changed, and all new PG texts are to include the source metadata?) Jon