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Hoping this isn't too much of a hijack - but there is a website called Distributed Proofreaders - and if you like old books, there is a SA team, that works to proof the books page by page, so they can eventually show up on Project Gutenberg for people to enjoy. Current stats - over 28,000 books have been put free, for everyone to enjoy, from Distributed Proofreaders. All out of copyright, so that means mostly pre-1923. http://www.pgdp.net/ The system is cut into different phases, so each book gets 2 proofing rounds against images of the book (scanners capture the book's text through optical character recognition scanning, which has lots of hilarious errors), then 2 rounds of very basic formatting, and then the 'advanced' work of post processing. There is a sort of side round of 'Smooth Reading' - so if you just enjoy older books you can just read them and report if there are any surprises like a page missing. Proofing each page generally takes only a minute or so to do, although if you're working on something with a tough font, or a bad scan it be longer. It's all volunteer - the books proofed are not just English, and you can sort by themes ranging from historical to military to poetry and biography. It might take a year or more for a book to be done (bottleneck is post-processing) but it's a good way to pass time, and you can sign up to be emailed when the e-book is done. The SA team is large, but not very active anymore, so someone suggested that I give a poke over here to see if any new blood might want to join up. http://www.pgdp.net/c/stats/teams/tdetail.php?tid=298 (The SA Team - I'm Thaadd there)
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