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Project Gutenberg sends a free CD or DVD to anyone who asks for it, and people are encouraged to make copies for a friend, a library or a school. A new DVD is in preparation. In 2004, Project Gutenberg was in touch with a European project studying how to combine translation software and human translators, somewhat as OCR software is now combined with the work of proofreaders.
From the website one can access a program that allows several proofreaders to be working on the same book at the same time, each proofreading on different pages. This significantly speeds up the proofreading process. Volunteers register and receive detailed instructions. For example, words in bold, italic or underlined, or footnotes are always treated the same way for any book.
2001/08: Creation of Project Gutenberg of Australia. 2001: Digitization of 104 books per month. 2001: Distributed Proofreaders became the main source of Project Gutenberg books. 2002: Distributed Proofreaders became an official Project Gutenberg site. 2002: Digitization of 203 books per month. 2003/08: "Best of Gutenberg" CD with 600 books.
2004/02: Michael Hart's visit to the European Parliament, in Brussels. 2004/10: 5,000 books processed by Distributed Proofreaders. 2004: Digitization of 338 books per month. 2005/05: 7,000 books processed by Distributed Proofreaders. 2005/05: First 100 books processed by Distributed Proofreaders Europe. 2005/06: 16,000 books in Project Gutenberg.
It will then also be possible to choose the font and size of characters and the background color. Another eagerly expected conversion is that of a book from one language to another by machine translation software. This may be possible in a few years, when machine translation is accurate to 99%. The main "leap forward" of Project Gutenberg in the last few years is due to Distributed Proofreaders.
The number of books that have been processed through Distributed Proofreaders has grown fast, with a total of 3,000 books in February 2004, 5,000 books in October 2004 and 7,000 books in May 2005, 8,000 books in February 2006 and 10,000 books in March 2007, with five books produced per day and 52,000 volunteers in December 2007.
1993/12: Creation of three main sections: Light Literature, Heavy Literature, Reference Literature. 1994: Digitization of eight books per month. 1995: Digitization of 16 books per month. 1996-97: Digitization of 32 books per month. 1998-2000: Digitization of 36 books per month. 2000/10: Charles Franks started Distributed Proofreaders to assist Project Gutenberg.
Text-format books can also be easily used by those who want to offer them in more sophisticated formats, without any restriction except for respect for copyright laws in the country involved and the availability of new free versions produced. Some readers have asked about how volunteer proofreaders work.
Distributed Proofreaders was conceived in 2000 by Charles Franks to help in the digitizing of public domain books. In 2002, Distributed Proofreaders became an official Project Gutenberg site. From the website one can access a program that allows several proofreaders to be working on the same book at the same time, each proofreading on different pages.
An impressive number if we think about all the scanned and proofread pages this number represents. A fast growth thanks to Distributed Proofreaders, a website launched in October 2000 by Charles Franks to share the proofreading of books between many volunteers. Volunteers choose one of the books listed on the site and proofread a given page.
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