A week ago, I wrote:
What I have done is just to search (worldcat.org and hathitrust.org) for some common Swedish words, and I don't have to do this for long before some very obvious (to a native speaker) spelling mistakes appear.
I've reported 38 errors to Hathitrust, and got feedback that they are now corrected. The originating libraries for these 38 records were: 18 University of California 6 University of Wisconsin 5 University of Michigan 3 Harvard University 2 Columbia University 2 New York Public Library 1 Cornell University 1 Princeton University Maybe Google scanned a lot of Swedish books at the University of California, or their error rate is higher. I didn't compile any statistics on the correct records that I looked at. Four of the records had a title where an a-ring (å) was erroneously written as an a-dot. But these four records came from four different libraries. I didn't see any patterns. -- Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/
