How we prepare an edition

Choose the book and the edition

We pick a book worth reprinting, find the edition to work from, and confirm the right to reprint it.
Transcribe the text

We transcribe the text from that edition and keep its structure: parts, chapters, headings, and notes.
Proof against the source

We read the transcription against the page images and correct the errors the transcription introduced.
Set, check, and publish

We set the type for print and Kindle, check the files, and then publish.

Historical approvals

Some source editions carry an imprimatur or another approval. We show it with the edition it belongs to. It is not an approval of our edition.

Every novena comes from a book printed in or before 1955: the Raccolta, or a prayer book issued with a bishop’s approval.
Its page names the book, the year, the approval as printed and the page, and shows the printed page beside the text.
Each word is checked against those pages, and every correction is recorded.
Indulgences appear only as the named edition printed them, never as a statement of what is granted today.
Recent compositions, and texts with no source, are not published.