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<p>To do this, find your book on the Standard Ebooks site and scroll to the “More Details” section. For example, <a href="/ebooks/thomas-hardy/far-from-the-madding-crowd#details">here’s that section for Thomas Hardy’s <i>Far From the Madding Crowd</i></a>. You’ll see that as well as links to the book’s page on Wikipedia and its repository of source code, there are links to the page scans at the Internet Archive and the original transcriptions at Project Gutenberg. These last two are the two we’re interested in.</p>
<h2>Reporting transcription errors to Project Gutenberg</h2>
<p>Gutenberg will happily fix problems with their transcriptions, but want errata reports formatted in a particular way, with proposed changes referenced against the line number of the plain text version of the transcription in question. Let’s look at a recent example.</p>
<p>A single error was found while proofing <a href="/ebooks/maurice-leblanc/the-golden-triangle/alexander-teixeira-de-mattos">Maurice Leblanc’s <i>The Golden Triangle</i></a>: a chapter title had an “E” instead of an “É”. The <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34795">book’s page on Gutenberg</a> has a link to <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34795/34795-0.txt">the plain text version</a>. Copying that into a text editor showed that the error (since fixed) was on line 9756. We also know from the ebook’s “<a href="/ebooks/maurice-leblanc/the-golden-triangle/alexander-teixeira-de-mattos#details">More Details</a>” section that <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hw5y1w">the source scans are available at the Hathi Trust Digital Library</a>. That meant that the following email could be sent to Gutenberg:</p>
<p>A single error was found while proofing <a href="/ebooks/maurice-leblanc/the-golden-triangle/alexander-teixeira-de-mattos">Maurice Leblanc’s <i>The Golden Triangle</i></a>: a chapter title had an “E” instead of an “É”. The <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34795">book’s page on Gutenberg</a> has a link to <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34795/34795-0.txt">the plain text version</a>. Copying that into a text editor showed that the error (since fixed) was on line 9756. We also know from the ebook’s “<a href="/ebooks/maurice-leblanc/the-golden-triangle/alexander-teixeira-de-mattos#details">More Details</a>” section that <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hw5y1w">the source scans are available at the HathiTrust Digital Library</a>. That meant that the following email could be sent to Gutenberg:</p>
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<p>Hi, I’ve been proofing The Golden Triangle against the source scans at https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hw5y1w and found a single error with a missing accent:</p>
<p>Title: The Golden Triangle, by Maurice Leblanc<br/>Release Date: 30 Dec 2010 [EBook #34795]<br/>File: 34795-0.txt</p>