Distributed Proofreaders

100,000 Volunteer Proofreaders and a Whole Lot of Books

Perhaps you, like millions of other people out there, have perused the books in the world’s oldest electronic library, Project Guttenberg. Founded in 1971, Project Guttenberg has put tens of thousands of books in the public domain on-line, on CDs, and on DVDs. But they haven’t done it alone. In 2000, an organization called Distributed […]

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