Whitening background of Gutenberg texts

[redrun]

The reason he's not copy/pasting in this case is, all of the text that can be selected from this scan is not the actual, original text, it is a computer's guess based on a photo of each page. It's still pretty common to have errors in that, so you'd either need to check the computer's work (part of what Gutenberg volunteers do) before recording, or read straight from the scan.

Most PDFs you'd create by exporting or "printing" a document into PDF form don't have this problem, but scans take a lot of error checking still.

[Peter Why]

I understand; much more complex than I've been imagining.
Peter

[KevinS]

Anybody know how to change the (often brownish) background color of the Gutenberg texts? I've found white background on other versions (PDF, etc) but they are often riddled with scanning errors, so I prefer to use the main (HTML?) version.

Mine eyes thank you,
Brize Crize

Brize, here is another version of the text in black and white: https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20191201/html.php

[BrizeCrize]

Brize, here is another version of the text in black and white: https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20191201/html.php

Thanks, KevinS, that's a winner for me for the time being anyway, I'll keep the Gutenberg open in case I sense any text errors as I go. Not that I don't appreciate all of the "Easy Once You Know How" solutions, and I'll refer back to them some day, but for now want to keep this project going, and this 'fadedpage' site fills the bill I think.

Thanks,
Brize