Well, my comparison is of two separate books. The original was published in 1897, and then it was dramatically edited and altered in 1944--not by the original author. The changes have not been widely publicized, but they are rather extensive, and entirely change the meaning at times (sometimes fully opposite the original meaning). My goal is simply to apprise people of the changes in a way that they can visualize them more easily and grasp their significance. One of the books, coming from OCR, seems to have more OCR-related artifacts than the other, and I may end up consulting with a hard-copy version of that book which I happen to have in hand to fix some of those. Seeing the discrepancies will help me locate them more quickly myself.

I'm unfamiliar with software versioning systems as well, having never used them.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

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