Distributed Proofreaders Posts 5,000th E-book

bbc writes "Distributed Proofreaders has posted its 5,000th ebook to Project Gutenberg. The book, a Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John W. Cousin, was proofed for this special occasion by over 500 volunteers. Distributed Proofreaders is a project that distributes the otherwise gargantuan task of correcting scanning and recognition errors in an OCR'ed text. The project has thousands of volunteers, of which many hundreds are active on any given day. It is currently the main supplier of etexts for Project Gutenberg."

Comments

Exxcelent Werk

[andrewa]

I am prowd to bee won off thows prewf reeders

Re:Exxcelent Werk

[eingram]

Well, I ran your comment through Word's spelling and grammar checker, took the first suggestions, and cleaned it up for you.

I am prow to bee won off thaws prow readers.

I say we get rid of the volunteers, Word does a great job!

So....

[TheRedHorse]

....I guess the slashdot editors aren't members?

I need a new job

[jamoan]

Wear can I apply? i have excellent grammer skills.

Re:I need a new job

[Anonymous Coward]

You make with the grammar, and the orthographic things, do I. Good concept, it is.

Slow down!

[tod_miller]

I am still on the 4986th book, this one isn't that good, but I have to finish it, oh, page 34, line 7 there is a mistake in the 4th word, I think you know it, yes.

Other than this I just found, the other 4985 are AOK so far.

Good work guys. Free the books. ook.

(re-reading Sourcery on the commute today... ook oook)

Re:What about 5001?

[xsupergr0verx]

This being the 24th day, he drops about 21 ish bombs a day.

That sir, is not constipation. That is uncontrollable demon bowels.

Re:What about 5001?

[aussie_a]

I took my 500th shit this month, you dont hear me calling the press do you?

I'm assuming your signature link is related to this, so yes, you could say you did call the press.

Is it possible...

[cujo_1111]

...that a million net monkeys can fix the complete works of Shakespeare so that they language is spoken the correct way?

Instead of 'WHat light through yonder windows breaks?' we get 'Who is that hot chick I can see through my binoculars?'

Re:What about 5001?

[jonathan_ingram]

The next book won't yield a news item, but is no less important. You are very welcome to join us, and help us proof all the books which will also provoke no news items until text 10,000 comes along -- which you can also complain about :).

from the error-checking-and-correcting dept.

[GothChip]

I didn't realise this department existed at Slashdot.

Shocking

[CBDSteve]

But not as shocking as this