Proofreaders needed (Vanity)

Distributed Proofreaders ^ | 11/29/2009 | Self

[zeugma]

I apologize in advance for the vanity, but I'd like to request some of the talents of the folks on Free Republic to assist in proofreading public domain books for Project Gutenberg.  Project Gutenberg is the original internet site for the publication and distribution of books that are a part of the public domain, and as such have no copyright. PG has published over 30,000 ebooks for free download in a variety of formats for anyone with an internet connection to enjoy at their leisure.

The Distributed Proofers are producing over a hundred books a month for publication and, like most volunteer organizations, they always need help.  From DP's main page:

Distributed Proofreaders provides a web-based method to ease the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books. By dividing the workload into individual pages, many volunteers can work on a book at the same time, which significantly speeds up the creation process.

During proofreading, volunteers are presented with a scanned page image and the corresponding OCR text on a single web page. This allows the text to be easily compared to the image, proofread, and sent back to the site. A second volunteer is then presented with the first volunteer's work and the same page image, verifies and corrects the work as necessary, and submits it back to the site. The book then similarly progresses through two formatting rounds using the same web interface.

Once all the pages have completed these steps, a post-processor carefully assembles them into an e-book, optionally makes it available to interested parties for 'smooth reading', and submits it to the Project Gutenberg archive.

How You Can Help

• Register with the site as a volunteer.
• Read the introductory email you receive and the Beginning Proofreader's FAQ.
• Confirm your registration, sign in, choose a project, and try proofreading a page or two!

Unregistered guests are invited to participate in Smooth Reading.

Remember that there is no commitment expected on this site beyond the understanding that you do your best.

Proofread as often or as seldom as you like, and as many or as few pages as you like. We encourage people to do 'a page a day', but it's entirely up to you! We hope you will join us in our mission of 'preserving the literary history of the world in a freely available form for everyone to use'.

There are many other ways to contribute to the site, including managing projects, providing content, or even helping develop improvements to the site! Join other members of our community in the Forums to discuss these and many other topics.

I've started a Freeper team, in case anyone would like to pool our efforts together. If any of you out there have already been proofing pages for a while, I welcome you to join team FreeRepublic.

[zeugma]

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[GOP Poet]

excellent. Thanks for the post.

[hole_n_one]

Eye wood bee happy two.

[Flycatcher]

#15 Ulysses by James Joyce

Proofreading Joyce?

Egads! How would you ever know if you're doing it right...? ;)

[LibFreeOrDie]

Thanks for the info! I just signed up!

[PubliusMM]

Ping

[zeugma]

Eye wood bee happy two.

There's won in every crowd!  LOL

[Hot Tabasco]

Proofreaders needed

With all the errors in spelling and grammar in many of the thread titles here alone, I think you you should look someplace else......LOL!

[mad_as_he$$]

Now days there Juan in every crowd.

[Chickensoup]

bump for later

[zeugma]

With all the errors in spelling and grammar in many of the thread titles here alone, I think you you should look someplace else......LOL!

That could be a series problem. Fortunately, there are plenty of grammer and speeling nazis on FR!

[count-your-change]

noproplem, i’m on the jobe,

[SunkenCiv]

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[bannie]

Bump! Perhaps when summer rolls around again...

[roamer_1]

Proofreading Joyce? Egads! How would you ever know if you're doing it right...? ;)

: D

[wafflehouse]

bookmark

[zeugma]

Thanks for bumping the thread SC. Didn’t really think about it being GGG material, but I guess it is!

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

bookmark

[Vigilantcitizen]

It takes Juan to know Juan.

[FourPeas]

Considering the number of books we download from them, returning the favor is an honor.