# Proofreading for Gutenberg - A Page a Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 10, 2002, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proofreading-for-gutenberg-a-page-a-day/136196 "2002-11-10T23:53:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proofreading-for-gutenberg-a-page-a-day/136196/1 "2002-11-10T23:53:58Z")
As recently mentioned on [Slashdot](http://slashdot.org/), there’s a site up where anyone can help [Project Gutenberg](http://www.gutenberg.net/) get more public-domain books online. At the [Distributed Proofreaders](http://texts01.archive.org/dp/) page, you can sign up to proof single pages from the original scans and OCR text of books to be posted on the Web for public use. Scanning and proofing a whole book is a major project; a page at a time is much more reasonable. I’ve only done a few pages myself, but I’m off to do more right now. The Slashdot article got them many new members (see the graph on the first page!), but the SDMB could certainly help out too. (Note: This post was proofread by hamsters. Blame them for any typos!) ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proofreading-for-gutenberg-a-page-a-day/136196/2 "2002-11-11T06:57:40Z")
Isn’t anybody interested? ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proofreading-for-gutenberg-a-page-a-day/136196/3 "2002-11-11T10:54:25Z")
Thanks for bumping it - I didn’t see it over the weekend. I might be able to help out. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proofreading-for-gutenberg-a-page-a-day/136196/4 "2002-11-11T13:20:01Z")
Ok, I’ve signed up. I’ll try to get to a page beginning tonight - not a good idea to do so from work. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proofreading-for-gutenberg-a-page-a-day/136196/5 "2002-11-12T01:44:07Z")
Glad to hear it, **dan**! Unfortunately, the site seems painfully slow right now, unless it’s just my PC. (And consider this another bump.) ---
**Author:** ![boomvark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@boomvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boomvark)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proofreading-for-gutenberg-a-page-a-day/136196/6 "2002-11-12T02:50:45Z")
Thanks, **rjk**. I just checked this out, and will definitely be getting involved. ---
**Author:** ![Regina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@Regina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regina)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proofreading-for-gutenberg-a-page-a-day/136196/7 "2003-08-05T16:46:44Z")
I recently joined Distributed Proofreaders and am just loving it (OK, I’m weird). I noticed that under “Teams” there is a Straight Dope team. I joined it, too, but could not find anywhere the purpose of the teams. Is it just to say, yay, Straight Dope team did xxx pages! Or are there some amazing benefits to being on this team that I should know about? ---
**Author:** ![Regina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@Regina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regina)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proofreading-for-gutenberg-a-page-a-day/136196/8 "2003-08-05T16:54:08Z")
I recently joined Distributed Proofreaders and am just loving it (OK, I’m weird). I noticed that under “Teams” there is a Straight Dope team. I joined it, too, but could not find anywhere the purpose of the teams. Is it just to say, yay, Straight Dope team did xxx pages! Or are there some amazing benefits to being on this team that I should know about? ---
**Author:** ![Regina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@Regina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regina)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proofreading-for-gutenberg-a-page-a-day/136196/9 "2003-08-05T16:59:20Z")
I recently joined Distributed Proofreaders and am just loving it (OK, I’m weird). I noticed that under “Teams” there is a Straight Dope team. I joined it, too, but could not find anywhere the purpose of the teams. Is it just to say, yay, Straight Dope team did xxx pages! Or are there some amazing benefits to being on this team that I should know about? ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proofreading-for-gutenberg-a-page-a-day/136196/10 "2003-08-05T17:38:11Z")
I’m in as well. I joined the SDMB team. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wrong_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proofreading-for-gutenberg-a-page-a-day/136196/11 "2003-08-05T18:16:18Z")
I just joined as well–I haven’t been back to PG in a while, but it can be an enjoyable thing to do on your lunch break or during um, other breaks. ---
**Author:** ![Regina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@Regina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regina)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proofreading-for-gutenberg-a-page-a-day/136196/12 "2003-08-05T20:47:29Z")
Oh my goodness I am so sorry about those posts. I knew my 'puter was acting up . . . :o