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Looking for a volunteer proofreader

plazman30

SOC-12
A close friend of mine had his copy of Book 3 - Worlds and Adventures destroyed. I was setting up the PDF to make him a replacement POD copy for him. And then I decided to see if I could "redo" the book by doing an OCR export and cleaning it up. Things went swimmingly fast until I hit my first table. But by then I was committed. So, I powered on and recreated Book 3 as best I could. As mentioned in my previous post, this is NOT a line for line match. That's a fool's errand. But it has all the original text, along with the errata, and each section is on the right page number, and each table is on the right page number. I am on my 4th proofread to correct errors, and I think I am just correcting formatting errors.

But in my experience, no level of personal proofreading ever catches all the typos in a document. So I'm looking for some volunteers than can prove they own a copy of Book 3 that would do some voluntary proofreading.

Once I am happy there are no typos or rule errors, I'll get a POD made.

My goal is to convert this to use open-source fonts when I am all done. If I can do that, then I could give this to Mongoose Publishing to replace the current scanned copy.

I have to proofread about 5 more pages, and then I'll be ready to share with volunteer proofreaders.
 
While doing this, I discovered some formatting errata I cleaned up.

The book has a mix of 4 digit numbers that use a comma and don't. You'll find something like 1000, and 1,000 throughout the book. In my recreation, I made sure all numbers 4 digits or greater in the book always used commas for consistency.

I also noticed that the book used a dash (-) instead of a minus sign (−) in a lot of places. So, I cleaned that up.

And last, on page 38, second paragraph under THE PSIONICS INSTITUTE, the sentence says Such search takes one week. It should say Such a search takes one week to be grammatically correct.

I don't know if any of this stuff warrants entry into the errata doc, but I thought I would point it out.
 
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