Just finished proofreading the Cretaceous...

Just realized that while I've been doing this for awhile, I hadn't mentioned it in here. Those of you if any who don't know about Project Gutenberg, go here right now. We'll wait. :)

OK, all this etext has to get into the computer somehow, which is where the Distributed Proofreaders come in. This is the army of proofreaders and formatters who attack the scanned text, boot all the scanos, disentangle tables, and turn out a readable result in text or html. Strictly volunteer, and anybody interested need only go over to here for details. You never know what'll turn up (other than that it'll be out of copyright), the book I just finished proofing a few pages of was the Encyclopedia Brittanica, 11th edition, volume 7 #5, Costume to Crocodile. I happened to get most of the article on the Cretaceous period in the handful of pages I just finished proofing. A few days ago I did some work on a western, before that a book on Scottish border legends, a space opera, and volume 2 of the Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony. Among other things.