Proofreaders

Update: A reader sez, "Distributed Proofreaders is celebrating 'Talk Like a Pirate Day' as 'Proof Like a Pirate Day':"

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Distributed Proofreaders is supported by Project Gutenberg.

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Distributed Proofreaders is a volunteer driven website that is committed to putting Public Domain books online.

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Is that supposed to be "Distributed Proofreaders" or as it was here in your site: "Distribued Proofreaders".

corvee - French Word-A-Day 2010

Proofreaders, if you have no clue what's going on, please say so.

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I timed myself while proofing several pages at Distributed Proofreaders, getting an average of 4 minutes 12 seconds per page.

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"What I'm finding is that someone, either at Aldiko, Project Gutenberg, or at Distributed Proofreaders can't spell worth a damn and has pretty poor reading comprehension when it comes to the Dr. Thorndyke novels."

Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

Tim, I just looked at the Distributed Proofreaders link Cally posted and boy do I wish I had time to get to the "hard poetry" level in time to proof the Skeat I have sitting on my bookshelf here...and there are pulldown menus for all sorts of diacriticals and things.

Making Light: Amazon & Macmillan 2010

What I'm finding is that someone, either at Aldiko, Project Gutenberg, or at Distributed Proofreaders can't spell worth a damn and has pretty poor reading comprehension when it comes to the Dr. Thorndyke novels.

Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

Since I know that Gutenberg requires contributors to checks copyright, and I'm absolutely sure that Distributed Proofreaders is paranoid about copyright and this particular edition was produced through DP, it's almost certainly out of copyright, or at least that particular edition is.

Making Light: Open thread 135 2010