11/16/2002
The best people to edit are the dead. No whining, no drama. And with the long dead, the Victorian dead, you get to rediscover the simple joys of compound sentences with semicolons. You can do this as a volunteer proofer at Project Gutenberg. The idea is that anyone can sign in, read a page or two, comparing each to a page image, and then knock off and come back later. I have reached 30 pages total -- they keep count -- so I am officially a "proofer," not a "newbie." And I got to read about Lincoln, The Peloponnesian War, WWI flying aces and the proper methods of public speaking from some 19th century expert. (Hint: use the diaphram.)
This is good literary karma. You are helping the Gutenberg folks reach their goal of posting a million books in ascii on the Web. You don't expect the damn publishers to keep these books around, do you?
This is good literary karma. You are helping the Gutenberg folks reach their goal of posting a million books in ascii on the Web. You don't expect the damn publishers to keep these books around, do you?
