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> Most people find it hard to read books with long s, for example, or even know what long s is or where it occurs.

That's not old-fashioned spelling or hyphenation: that's old-fashioned typography.




> That's not old-fashioned spelling or hyphenation: that's old-fashioned typography.

A critical difference, because once you've corrected OCR errors so that you correctly have the spelling-as-in-original, but not done any “modernization”, there is no issue with long-s to addres.s




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