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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
I was under the impression that Distributed Proofreading was PG's proofreading system.
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DP is only one of the options to volunteer for PG. It is indeed a good system where you can proof online even a page a day, if you don't have much time to spare. But you can't (for proofreading) choose a whole book for yourself. Everybody (thousands of people) works on everything. Books go through a number of rounds, and the time they spend in DP before actually being posted to the Project Gutenberg depends on the interest there is for them from people to work on. I worked for DP for about three years (from "proofer" to "project verificator
- after that, I was on the posting team of Project Gutenberg.
I quite often "talk" with Michael Hart (who invented the e-book and started Project Gutenberg) - He included
FreeLiterature in his press releases for the World eBook Fair.
Besides DP there are a lot of volunteers who produce e-text from books on their very own. I myself teamed up with a friend for three years. The same text should be viewed by different eyes to become a good e-text. With FreeLiterature I want to give people the opportunity to work on a complete book. They do a first or second round proofreading. I do a third (and some automated checks) and the formatting and posting to PG.
People wanting to do more than proofreading, will get from me all the help they need to produce a good e-text from scratch (scanning, ocr,...)
Hope this gives a bit of background? - Please ask if you want more information.
Thanks for the interest.