Tuesday, March 4, 2014

The Magpie's Nest by Isabel Paterson

Status: One Round of QC (03.04.2014)

EPUB: https://mega.co.nz/#!eIohSRjC!1fByYQhG32_ePzQk-kw_jKrw8GCC4t65Ryb5JtyyQYA

Based off of the Archive.org PDFs here: https://archive.org/details/magpiesnest00pateuoft

Fix Notes:


Page 34: par. 3: Decidedly

Decidedy she had taken him by surprise, perhaps on account of the environment, wherein one did not look for such delicate little sprites.

Page 63: par. 3: thinking

“Were you thinkng of that, three years ago?”

Page 76: par. 3: never closes quotation marks

“But —life’s pretty lonesome. ... I like a girl . . . near me. ... I used to know a lot of chorus girls in Chicago; jolly kids. . . .

Page 80: par. 2: patronesses

They did begin with the patronnesses, who represented every shade of the town’s evolution toward “society,” as Mary explained.

Page 86: par. 0: precision

Her regal height dwarfed the little man; his stout bow legs bore him gallantly, moving with a deft precison that gave the final touch of burlesque.

Page 117: par. 1: "collar-bone" was used 3 times elsewhere in the book, so I normalized this

A tiny dent in her upper lip, a delicate depression at the apex of her collar bone, delighted him; he kissed them, and cuddled her like a pet kitten.

Page 162: par. 2: inaccessibility

And slowly her inacessibility had wrought on him.

Page 191: par. 1: Should be left DOUBLE quote

‘Maybe I’ll see them some day in the magazines.”

Page 287: par. 2: himself

The lover may fancy his lady’s perfections so obvious that none can miss them, short of imbecility; but every true husband knows that only himeslf can see his wife as she deserves to be seen.

QUESTIONABLE:



Page 258: par. 3: promised

He prom-ished rashly that they should return some day and loot it, even unto repletion.

4 comments:

  1. If you're still doing converting, here's another candidate.

    http://direct.mises.org/document/3806/The-Forgotten-Man-and-Other-Essays

    Thanks, Bill
    Sun, 13 Apr 2014, 5:18 am EDT

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    1. Definitely still converting. I haven't stopped, just was working on a lot of non-Mises EPUBs + official EPUBs (up in the Mises Literature section).

      I didn't update blog at the extremely quick pace I was previously.

      I will toss these recommendations on my "to do" list. Thanks for pointing them out!

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  2. And another suggestion for conversion to epub.

    https://mises.org/document/4972/Money-and-the-Mechanism-of-Exchange

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  3. Thanks for the reply. Just came across another classic that might be worthwhile, "The American Language" by Mencken. Google has a EPUB version that might be okay, but looks like it could use some cleaning up. I think it may be just an OCR of a scan.

    http://books.google.com/books?id=XbZIAAAAMAAJ&dq=intitle:american+intitle:language+inauthor:mencken&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0&source=gbs_navlinks_s

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