My decrease worldsuck project for the day: Distributed Proofreading

[pegkerr]

Hey, I found my Decrease Worldsuck project for the day, and it's a perfect one for a person who is a writer: Distributed Proofreading.

Project Gutenberg puts public-domain books online for free. But between scanning the books and offering the text files, someone needs to proofread. That's what the volunteers at Distributed Proofreading do. All you need to do is offer a human eye to a scanned page and its computer-made text version. No grammar or spelling skills required; just make the new text match the original. Give the world something good to read.

So here's what I did today to make the world a better place: I signed up with Distributed Proofreading (and let you know about it.) I've taken a look at the introductory materials and proofread my first page. I'm on my way!

Comments

[coraa.livejournal.com]

I love Distributed Proofreading! I did a lot of it in college, but haven't done much since. This is a great reminder to get back into it.

[hamsterwoman]

Oh, that's neat! *registers*

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been doing this for a few years, on and off. I get going for a few weeks at a time, then tend to take a few months off. This time of year I definitely am NOT doing it - not much spare time.

[eal.livejournal.com]

Oh very cool. This is the kind of volunteerism that I can actually do!

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

Oooh, this is seriously cool. Pity I don't have the time for it, but it's quite worthwhile. Thanks!