I thought I'd post a link to an opportunity to do some good. Many of you probably know about Project Gutenberg, the huge project to digitize and make available millions of books that are in the public domain. Gutenberg has already created a huge online library and more texts are being processed every day. Digitizing all those printed words is a massive effort. The books have to be scanned, the scans have to run through optical character recognition programs, the resulting text has to be corrected, and so on.
If you like to read and have an eye for detail here's a chance to help--The Distributed Proofreader Project. This project harnesses the skills of thousands of volunteers to proofread and correct the texts from the scanning/ocr process. All they ask from volunteers is a page a day, but that page a day from all those volunteers adds up--to date the project has completed more than 14,000 books!
Like most volunteer jobs DP pays off for the volunteer as well. This is a chance to improve your detail skills, English skills and more.
Consider spending a few minutes to help out this great project!
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