The Adventures of the Missing Text!!!!

One morning, I was working on a little project with my dear friend, Sherlock Holmes, in his velvet upholstered study, the walls lined with leather-bound volumes full of illustrations, ancient tongues, and dust, when all of a sudden the door was flung wide and in stumbled a lady with close set eyes, peering dazedly from behind thick black frames.

"Oh my! I do hope this is the office of the infamous Sherlock Holmes," exclaimed the lady.
"Verily, madame. Do you have a mystery needs solving?" I asked after recovering my composure.
"Yes, I'm afraid I am quite lost." whimpered the lady.

I was left somewhat breathless that someone should think 221 Baker Street somehow akin to a Constabulary, as if you could walk in and get directions or report a lost dog. But Holmes patiently listened as the lady went on to explain that she had lost about five pages of extremely important letters, or perhaps they had been stolen, but in any case, the missing pages could result in a world-wide (web) catastrophe: the un-publish-ability of The Return of Sherlock Holmes!

Holmes paced momentarily before one of his cherry bookshelves. In a dust-covered tome titled, Unix for Dummies he hurriedly scanned, flipping the pages swiftly, as only someone who's fingers were delicately calloused by violin virtuosity could.
"Ah-ha! Just as I suspected, Watson! Have you ever heard of a rascal named Bram Moolenaar? These missing pages sound just like the sort of pesky tricks he would pull. It is very much like what I heard from the case, The Adventure in the Vim Editor!" said Holmes, his eyes flickering with the acquisition of another case.

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So the lesson of today is that you have to be really careful not to press d /search term in VI. We use Vi at Trillium Classics because it allows us to manipulate a manuscript relatively easily. But if you're unfamiliar with Vi or any other number of extremely geeky devices for editing (like me!!) then it's not easy, it's a sink or swim type deal. Luckily for you, dear reader, you don't have to do any sort of manipulation to your e-books. At Trillium Classics, we do it for you!! Where other sellers expect you to just deal with ugly formatting (perhaps because they are afraid of geeky devices!) we boldly go out like Holmes and Watson, cracking the cases of code, stocking the files with Great Literature.