ok, let's take a look at gardner's book, just for the exercise

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no, in such situations, i'll download the o.c.r. from archive.org, which _does_ still contain pagebreak info, and unwrapped text, and end-line hyphenates. and then i will use your proofed text to make the corrections to the archive.org o.c.r. and then i will throw your text away, and keep the corrected, unwrapped and page-marked text with the original end-line hyphenates in it...
it occurs to me that it would be quite instructive to demo this exercise. i'll be using gardner's book to show how i'd go through this process. to prep, i downloaded the scans for his book from canadia.com, and mounted them on my website, along with a skeleton copy of the text. here's a sample url:
as you can see, the prefix for this book is "gardn", so if you put a copy of the banana-cream program in a folder of its own, and name it "gardn.exe", it will download the .zml file and the scans from the website, and you'll be able to see how to start to use it. -bowerbird p.s. mac users should name the app "gardn.app", of course... (or, since your .app extensions are likely hidden, just "gardn".)

No matter how much I trust anyone, I always make my own "last pass" at any eBook I have the final responsibility for, including quotes, which obvious CAN add up differently after space removal, etc., and the always seems to be at least one "torn margin," etc. It's just nice to have a pair of human eyeballs as the last resort, even when you prepared the entire book all by yourself. I think it may be the case that I ALWAYS found at least one more error even if it is just the most cursory pass. Sometimes I just insist on quite literally working on it until I find ONE more error just to prove I was there doing my two cents worth. Thanks!!! Michael
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Michael S. Hart