Means of Ascent by Robert A. CaroMy rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is positively monumental. How does Caro do it? Well, I know how he does it. I read his book on the topic. He does it with a lot of hard and humble work (and some excellent help from his wife). I was...
Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education by Stanley FishMy rating: 5 of 5 stars I have read multiple Stanley Fish books; I read quite a number of these columns when they were originally published in the New York...
Why I Preach from the Received Text is an anthology of personal testimonies more than it is a collection of careful arguments. It is not intended to be academic, and I see nothing necessarily wrong with that. But it does make countless properly academic claims, and...
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro My rating: 5 of 5 stars Robert Caro is fascinated by power. He has given his life to exploring how it is gained and kept. And in Robert Moses, the subject of this epic book, power looks like the...
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Ahh, yes. The certain HTML encoding imperfections in these old texts from a century ago. Amazon must have had access to a more originaler artifact.
OUCH! I’m having flashbacks to my time working on a certain high school literature anthology I coauthored in a formed life. One of the things I oversaw on that project was the OCR text conversion process. On more than one occasion, the text was too old + our software was too primitive = I had to rewrite entire texts by hand, one word at a time … ugh.
Sometimes I’ve found it takes more energy to correct errors in OCR text than just to type it all out myself.