Distributed Proofreaders Posts 5,000th E-book

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 24, 2004 @06:41PM from the error-checking-and-correcting dept.

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."

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Re:What about 5001? by xsupergr0verx · 2004-08-24 18:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The other day I was the 87298734th visiter to a website. I won a trip to Hawaii.

The fireworks told me. I put in my email, but I haven't gotten any tickets yet. Mostly just offers to make my penis bigger...

How did they ever know??

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Re:What about 5001? by dragonp12 · 2004-08-24 20:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Your 500th shit this month? Have you got some kind of medical problem?

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