james- i'm on the run, so no time to respond to your post, but here's the results of my efforts to reinstall pagebreaks:
not perfect, but not bad either. it will at least get you back to the state where you can confidently look at a scan and the text for that page... the next step would be to reinsert the correct linebreaks. from that point in, you'd be back to the normal situation. of course, "normal" for this book _still_ lacks the italics, and the em-dashes, and the utf8 characters, and _some_ of that _might_ be available in the archive.org abbyy.gz, i haven't looked. but if you went to grab _that_ version, you'd be starting from scratch. so either way is a pain... most of the _layout_ in my version is close to correct now. more later... -bowerbird p.s. don't start a new project without talking to me first!