[Bell Historians] Tintinnalogia by Echo Library

[Edward W Martin]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, Alan Ellis <alan_ellis at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Sorry, I should have said that it is in plain English using the 
original 
> language but missing out the long F for an S, etc.
> 
> Although I have not checked, I would say that it is copied from the 
> Gutenberg web site.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Alan

I have used Google Book Search which has a collection of various old 
books which have been photographed. 
Google offers the choice of reading the photo image as is, or 
in 'plain text'
I assume that the plain text version is derived from the photo image 
by using some computer program that guesses at image type 
and 'translates' this into actual type, because very often, a slight 
blur on the original image will be translated as almost anything that 
the computer thinks it might be.
 
Again, I presume that the original Gutenberg online version of The 
Tintinnalogia, was originally photographed and then put through this 
translating process because, when it first came out, I noticed the 
title page referred to "The Archer" which actually should have 
been "Tho Archer" (with the 'o' in superscript) I notified them but 
with no response. I just checked today & they have corrected this 
with a note that they have also 'corrected' several type errors which 
they have underlined (highlighted). The majority of these are 
corrections of their own translation errors rather than of the 
original type set
 
Again I presume that the press in question has downloaded this 
Tintinnalogia and printed a hard copy, though why anybody would buy 
it when they can get the same thing online, beats me
 
Eddie Martin