Anybody else see a problem with the cover and the description on this old book?
Review: The Power Broker, by Robert Caro
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...
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.