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<h1>Report Errors</h1>
<p>You can report any kind of error in a Standard Ebook to us and well do our best to get it corrected as soon as we can.</p>
<p>If youre a software developer or youre comfortable with technology, you can fix the error yourself in the ebooks <a href="https://www.github.com/standardebooks/">GitHub repository</a>, and submit a pull request.</p>
<p>If youd rather not do that, then you can report an error directly to us and well take care of it. To report an error, youll need:</p>
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<p><b>The author and title of the ebook in question.</b> Even better is a direct link to the Standard Ebooks page for that ebook. You can find that link in the ebooks colophon, which is accessible via the table of contents and is always found at the end of the ebook.</p>
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<p><b>The word immediately before and after the word that contains the error.</b> Usually three words is enough for us to quickly locate the error in the ebook, but if you think only three words isnt enough, a few more wont hurt.</p>
<p>If the error doesnt involve a specific word, just send us a quick description of whats going on.</p>
<p>For example, say youve spotted the incorrectly curled quotation mark in the text below:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>He rose excitedly. “Go get <mark class="error"></mark>em, tiger!” he cried.</p>
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<p>All youd have to send us is:</p>
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<p>get em, tiger</p>
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<p>And well be able to find the section youre talking about and correctly curl the quotation mark.</p>
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<p>Once you have these two items, <a href="https://groups.google.com/g/standardebooks">contact us via our mailing list</a> with that information and well get right on it!</p>
<p>We often use transcripts from other projects as a base for Standard Ebooks. If youd like, you can also report any transcription errors to those projects too (contributing upstream, in open source terminology). <a href="/contribute/report-errors-upstream">You can follow our guide to reporting errors to Gutenberg and other sources.</a></p>
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