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A Little Bit about Distributed Proofreaders

Distributed Proofreaders (DP) is a project to have members of the general public proofread etexts for placement in the Project Gutenberg (PG)1 archive. All of these etexts are OCR scans of books that are no longer under copyright.

To date DP has submitted over 1700 etexts to the PG Archive, with nearly 700 of those being added in the last 5 months.

Distributed Proofreading allows people to proofread one page of text at a time, through their web browser. The theory is that if 600 people proofread one page per day, each day a 300 page book can be proofread twice and soon after added to PG.

Access to DP is open to everyone and there are books needing proofreading in a number of different languages.

The H2G2 Researcher Team was started on February 27th, 2003.

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If you would like to see your name listed here, join up and leave a message below. Also include your rank and I'll also include that. Finally, once you're on the list if your rank changes let me know that as well.

H2G2 Researchers Team shows the current page count for our group and allows you to join the team if you are already signed up at Distributed Proofreading.

1More information on the history of PG can be found at A Short History of Project Gutenberg and Distribued Proofreading

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