25000 Books Proofread By Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders 29
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.
Re:whose paying these guys? (Score:4, Interesting)
Proof that people can in fact be decent, generous, and caring.
Or bored. many years ago I had this temp job of staffing the front desk, really quite little traffic and the occasional call, collecting the mail and various other small duties but a lot of downtime and no interest in training me for more since it was a rather short contract. Project Gutenberg seemed like a good way to pass the time, and they were cool with it as long as I tended to my other duties when they needed tending. Seem like a better use of my time than playing solitaire.