The thruput of PG US, with TIFF scan, Distributed Proofreading, and file formatting is now pushing 2 years on average. Quite frankly, I have given up on them from a contribution sense. I have 10 volumes that I am going to convert to e-book myself, and post on PG Austrialia, which is less fussy.
Here are excepts from the lastest communique from Greg Weeks at PG US.
"> Who do I need to communicate with for scanning US western historical
> books? I have several (with origial illustrations) that need a better
> P.G. Version than what is currently available.
I don't typicly handle anything outside of children's literature and SF.
If you want to set up an account at
www.pgdp.net and post in the forums,
you might find someone interested.
> In addition, I looked at the recent (March 2008) HTML version of
> Abbott's Flatland, and it still didn't have the origial illustration,
> mererly the .txt simulations. Is there any way I can provide the scans
> of the original illustrations for incorporation with the text?
I thought someone was working on this.
Yes, "Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions" is going through PGDP with
the original cover even. It's in the P3 waiting queue. It's waiting for
the final proofing pass and has two formatting passes left. Around a year
probably before it posts."
No complaint about Greg, he doesn't make the system. But it's gotten extremely slow.