06/27/2010

Ok, let me start by say this.

This books is most likely a conversion of a scan and then BAD OCR that had never been proofed, converted from a DOC copy of the same book. This was done because when I went to load it to make sure it was ok I had a terrible time as it just would not load into Word no matter what I did.

Finally I was able to get it into WordPerfect, although in some squirrelly text box. From there I copied it to another file to convert it to an RTF, rather than a DOC. Ok, don't ask me why RTF rather than DOC, it's just what I did!

Well once I did that I started to notice, that HEY, this is identical to the PDF mess posted above. So I decided to try and fix a few things, starting (and ending with I am afraid) paragraphs that ended in the middle of sentences.

I found that this was not an easy thing when you don't have the original to refer to, but I struggled through it anyway. Now of course there seems to be some extremely lengthy paragraphs that probably should have been broken apart in different places than the ones I combined. Again, without a SCAN or Book I could not do this, so left that alone.

As I was going through the book though, I noticed several things. Tons of misspelled words and names and language that almost seemed to be a poor translation to the English language. I chose not to correct these things, as I did not know either how, or if anything was intentional by the author.

So, this is a very early version that is in desperate need of additional proofing, should someone want to take on the task. But it is probably readable should you want to suffer through the mistakes of a scan and OCR that should probably not have been posted by the original scanner!