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Originally Posted by cmbs
I most sincerely doubt that people who are posting 5 and more ebooks daily are actually comparing them word for word to a real book to correct mistakes before finalizing and uploading. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "hand checked."
I believe most of their books come from Gutenberg. In fact, I believe most of the free public domain books available on the internet come from Gutenberg.
It's my understanding that the Distributed Proofreaders works with Project Gutenberg. I can't say that I've ever sat down and compared a real book line by line with a Gutenberg text, but the Gutenberg books I've read seem fine to me. Very good in fact.
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What they are doing is reading the book themselves and fixing problems in the reading of the book. In some cases where a problem can't be resolved a comparison to the original may be called for but if it reads ok then it is probably ok for all except the scholar that is studying the book, not just reading it. Note in some cases the book gets built so they can read it and then after it is read you will find a new version on the site. They also take input.
Dale