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 sample is from the ever-popular "the art of war".
here is the page-scan for page 54:
> http://www.archive.org/stream/artofwaroldestmi00suntuoft#page/54
here's the o.c.r. for the entire book:
> http://ia331333.us.archive.org/3/items/artofwaroldestmi00suntuoft/artofwaroldestmi00suntuoft_djvu.txt
here is the o.c.r. for page 54:
>
> 54
>
> the four seasons make ^ay for each other in turn.
> Literally, "have no invariabl, seat>>>
>
> There are short days a^ long; the moon has its periods
> of waning and waxing.
>
> Cf. V. 6. The purport of the passage j s s i mp iy to illustrate the want
> of fixity in war by the chang s constant i y taking place in Nature. The
> comparison is not very happ.^ however, because the regularity of the
> phenomena which Sun Tzu m n ti ons i s by no means paralleled in war.
this particular edition mixed ideographs in with the text, so i could've
picked virtually any page and presented some hairy-looking o.c.r., but
i decided to focus instead on a page with no ideographs whatsoever...
-bowerbird