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Distributed Proofreaders (the sourcing site for Gutenburg) is down today for maintenance. They'll be back up tomorrow (or later tonight).
The Current backlog for DP is 18 months; roughly a million pages. This represents the pages that have already been OCR'd, undergone three rounds of proofing, two rounds of formatting, and are awaiting finalization. Most of that backlog is in Post Processing and verification; this is where the final transcription gets smoothed into the final readable forms for posting on GP.
If you'd like to volunteer, all you have to do is read the proofing rules, take an easy quiz, and start proofing. As you get experience, you move into formatting and the higher rounds of proofing. Post processing and smooth reading are also available activities.
There's a huge variety of projects in work; everything from encyclopedic volumes of science and knowledge to old-timey dime-store novels. Something for every interest.
Careful though ... its habit-forming.
Wanna know more? PM me.
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