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Posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @12:40PM from the get-your-free-knowledge dept.

New submitter fritsd writes "Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders, a volunteer site which helps provide public domain books to Project Gutenberg, announced that their 100 000+ volunteers have reached the milestone of 25 000 books scanned, OCRed, and then meticulously proofread." The 25000th title is The Art and Practice of Silver Printing by Capt. Abney and H. P. Robinson.

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I'm glad he's doing someting with his time, (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @01:03PM (#43413537)

I'm glad Mr. Guttenberg [imdb.com] is doing something with his time and money with such a noble project as this. I guess it makes up for the Police Academy movies [imdb.com] he did.
Now if I only read books.

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