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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.
At 3.15 PM, one of the ten U.S. main daily newspapers, the Dallas Morning News, gave an exclusive on its website: Timothy McVeigh, the main suspect in the Oklahoma City bomb attack, just admitted he was guilty of this crime.
The pages should be sent as scans to be uploaded on the website. For people who cannot create scans, it is possible to send photocopies by postal mail. The pages will then be filed, either on paper or electronically, so that the proof will be available in the future, to demonstrate if necessary that the book is in the public domain under the US law.
One improvement we are all waiting for, however, is a shorter connection time when accessing any website or individual pages we may wish to consult, especially those with many pictures. Let us hope that is coming soon.
For example, passages in bold, italic or underlined, like footnotes, are always treated the same way, to standardize presentation of all the e-books. A discussion forum allows you to ask questions or seek help at any time. Each time you go to the website, you choose the book you want. You compare the two and make corrections.
And what about all the hyperlinks giving access to all kinds of documents from one website? However, the information available indicates that at present around 1,000,000 books/titles are published and some 5,000 feature films are produced in a year, and the number of copies of phonograms sold per year presently is more than 3,000 million."
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.
The website is intended to be the country's shop window for tourists and foreign investors. And things are made even more difficult because of prohibitive connection costs three times the cost of a local phone call. China is also discovering digital information through the China Wide Web, which is the country's national Internet.
The first library website was that of the Helsinki City Library, Finland, which opened in February 1994. The name Gabriel is common to many European languages and is derived from the Old Testament, where Gabriel appears as one of the archangels or heavenly messengers. He also appears in a similar role in the New Testament and the Qu'ran."
2006/07: 35th anniversary of Project Gutenberg. 2006/07: New DVD, with 17,000 books. 2006/11: Launching of the Project Gutenberg News website. 2006/12: 20,000 books in Project Gutenberg. 2006/12: 400 books processed by Distributed Proofreaders Europe. 2006: Digitization of 345 books per month. 2007/03: 10,000 books processed by Distributed Proofreaders.
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