Just One Page a Day

Charles Franks writes "Two years ago I started building an online proofreading system as a way to help Project Gutenberg (PG) get more books online: Distributed Proofreaders (DP). The concept is simple, we scan books and load the image and OCR output for each page into the online system. Next, proofreaders compare the OCR text to the image making any corrections as necessary, each page gets looked at twice. Finally the output from the site is massaged into a PG e-text and submitted to PG for posting to the archive. Now, nearly 600 books and a lot of PHP code later, we have snuggled into our new home which is graciously provided by the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg. Now that we have 'real' resources available to us (the original site ran on a Pentium 200 over my 128kbps upstream cablemodem) I would like to invite the online community at large to help us put even more books online. To this end I would like to ask everyone to do 'Just One Page a Day'. Thank you, Charles Franks"

Comments

Book Pirating?

[kldavis4]

So are the books they are digitizing all in the public domain? It doesn't seem like there would be that many books in the public domain that haven't already been made available on the net. Of course I could be wrong.

Prufe reed?

[conduit4]

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Re:And you ask the /. community..

[Surak]

*sigh*

You guys are PATHETIC.

The possessive of "it" is "its". So:

"The cat got out of its bag."

*NOT* "The cat got out of it's bag."

The only the time you use an apostrophe is when you are doing a contraction of "it is", i.e.,

"It's the cat that got out of the bag." (as opposed to the dog ;)

I'm sending you *all* back to grammar school, including the twit that marked this post as "insightful". Go on, get going.