for 32 days, i am showing samples of the problems with the text in e-books from the internet archive... *** today's example is from "the turn of the screw". here's the scan for page 123:

http://www.archive.org/stream/twomagicsturnofs00jameuoft#page/123

here's the o.c.r. for the whole book:

http://ia331312.us.archive.org/0/items/twomagicsturnofs00jameuoft/twomagicst... and here's the o.c.r. for page 123:

THE TURN OF THE SCREW 123

He turned it over. " Very likely. But what things ? "

" The things you've never told me. To make up his mind what to do with you. He can't send you back "

" Oh, I don't want to go back ! " he broke in. " I want a new field."

He said it with admirable serenity, with positive unimpeachable gaiety ; and doubtless it was that very note that most evoked for me the poignancy, the unnatural childish tragedy, of his probable reappear ance at the end of three months with all this bravado and still more dishonour. It overwhelmed me now I that I should never be able to bear that, and it made i me let myself go. I threw myself upon him and in the I tenderness of my pity I embraced him. " Dear little Miles, dear little Miles 1 "

My face was close to his, and he let me kiss him, simply taking it with indulgent goodhumour. " Well, old lady ? "

" Is there nothing nothing at all that you want to tell me ? "

He turned off a little, facing round toward the wall and holding up his hand to look at as one had seen sick children look. " I've told you I told you this morning."

Oh, I was sorry for him ! " That you just want me not to worry you ? "

He looked round at me now, as if in recognition of my understanding him; then ever so gently, "To let me alone," he replied.

There was even a singular little dignity in it, some-

spacey quotes, spacey question-marks, spacey exclamation-points, an exclamation-point misrecognized as "1", missing em-dashes and a missing end-of-line hyphen, are all errors occurring on this page. in addition, and more subtle, there are some extra characters at the left-hand margin in the middle of the fourth paragraph. i looked at other scan-sets of this book too, and found that many had been marked by patrons, introducing yet another ironic fact -- the more popular a book is, the more times it has been checked out, and the greater the likelihood that a patron has made marks in it... -bowerbird