Anteros

"I despair I really do..." to quote a certain Admiral Lord Exmouth who must be spinning in his grave right now!

I recently bought a kindle for reading historic books and documents from google books and archive.org. It's not an ideal solution as the digitisation process really struggles to cope with the formatting, fonts and typesetting of historic documents and older books, so you tend to end up with garbage in amongst the text. However it does mean I can read the Gentleman's Magazine and the Naval Chronicle on the bus! Occasionally though the kindle throws up an error that makes you go WTF?!

This morning I was reading Edward Osler's The Life Of Admiral Viscount Exmouth downloaded in kindle format from archive.org, when I came across the following....

The young officer , who, like him, has devoted himself to an arduous LIFE OF vice, with nothing to rely on but his character and his sword, may derive instruction from his example and encouragement from his success.

I beg your pardon? A WHAT? An arduous life of vice?!

Referring back to the google books pdf reveals it should actually read "has devoted himself to an arduous service" but "service" is split over two pages and kindle has lost the "ser" and inserted the page heading "LIFE OF" instead.

There you have it, 250 years of untarnished reputation trashed by technology! Just as wellnodbear is off gallivanting with mylodon otherwise I suspect there would be trouble!

Oh my fucking god. I knew fandom could be, shall we say, a little strange but I had no idea just how strange until I stumbled across this. This is just beyond weird, and wrong on so many levels that I don't even know where to start.

EDIT: Sadly this video has been locked :( I did wonder if it was prime material for a cease and desist request. Shame. It really was an extraordinary piece of work. I have no doubt that kleghacat will go far.

( Crazy weirdness under the cut )