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48 active volunteers in the past 24 hours. About This SiteDistributed Proofreaders Canada (DPC) was founded in 2007 by Michael Shepard and David Jones to support the digitization of Public Domain books. Our inspiration was Distributed Proofreaders International (DP), which was originally conceived to prepare texts for Project Gutenberg (PG). Just as DP is now the main source of PG eBooks, DPC now provides many of the books for FadedPage (FP) that started on March 22, 2012. All our proofreaders, managers, developers and so on are volunteers. The main principles of our mission are to: (1) preserve Canadiana, one page at a time, (2) take advantage of the favourable copyright laws in Canada to make books written by authors who died before 1972 more available to the public. DPC software is licensed and available under GNU GPL v2. Source code can be found here. Front Page News
last changed Friday, May 3, 2024. Do check out our twice-monthly newsletter published on the first and third Fridays. It is capably managed by Quill. The newest issue is posted here.Site ConceptThis site provides a web-based method of easing the proofreading work associated with the digitization of Public Domain books into FadedPage eBooks. By breaking the work into individual pages many proofreaders can be working on the same book at the same time. This significantly speeds up the proofreading/eBook creation process. When a proofreader elects to proofread a page of a particular book, the text and image file are displayed on a single web page. This allows the page text to be easily reviewed and compared to the image file, thus assisting the proofreading of the page text. The edited text is then submitted back to the site via the same web page that it was edited on. A second proofreader is then presented with the work of the first proofreader and the page image. Once they have verified the work of the first proofreader and corrected any additional errors the page text is again submitted back to the site. The book then progresses through two formatting rounds using the same web interface. Once all pages for a particular book have been processed, a post-processor joins the pieces, properly formats them into a FadedPage eBook, optionally makes it available to interested parties for 'smooth reading', and submits it to the FP archive. How You Can HelpThe first thing to do is register as a new user (button at top right). Choose a user name and a password. After you register be sure to read over both the email you receive as well as the Getting started information page which provides helpful resources on how to proofread. After you have registered and read through some of the intro documents, we have special projects with the BEGIN identifier which will give you an introduction to the proofreading process. If you proofread in a BEGIN project there will be helpful mentors to offer constructive feedback on your work. All of our initial projects can be found in the P1 list (button at top right). You can also have a look at the Smooth Reading Projects List where you can read some of the newly finished books. These have yet to be posted to our eBook archive, Faded Page and we use this place to get some final feedback. Proofread whenever you like. We encourage people to do ‘a page a day’, but it's entirely up to you! We hope you will join us in our mission of ‘preserving the literary history of the world’ one book at a time. Recent Projects
5033 Complete.These books have been processed through our site and posted to the Faded Page archive. They may also have been posted to Project Gutenberg Canada and/or Project Gutenberg US. 1) "The Children of the Night (1931)" Howard, Robert E. (1906-1936) (en) 2) "Fifty-Seven Minutes (1925)" Macbeth, Madge (1878-1965) (en) 3) "Colin the Scout (1925)" Brereton, Frederick Sadleir (1872-1957) (en) 4) "A Daring Canadian Abolitionist (1921) [CanLit]" Landon, Fred (1880-1969) (en) 5) "Far Places (1931)" Bell, James Mackintosh (1877-1934) (en) 6) "Green Light for Death (1949, 1968 reprint) [Johnny Liddell #2]" Kane, Frank (1912-1968) (en) 7) "The Secret of the Caves (1929) [Hardy Boys #7]" Dixon, Franklin W. (Stratemeyer pseudonym) (en) 8) "Not Without Laughter (1969)" Hughes, Langston (1901-1967) (en) 9) "Seigneur D'Haberville (The Canadians of Old)--A Romance of the Fall of New France (1929) [CanLit]" De Gaspé, Phillippe Aubert (1786-1871) (en) 10) "Canadian Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen Gardener (1872) [RE-LAUNCH] [Canadiana]" Beadle, D. W. (Delos White) 1823-1905 (en) -- See more... 
319 In Progress.These books have been proofed and formatted through our site but have not yet posted—currently going through final post processing and assembly. 1) "The Five Books of Mr. Moses (1929)" Goller, Izak (1891-1939) (en) 2) "A Daughter of Strife (1897)" Findlater, Jane Helen (1866-1946) (en) 3) "The House of Intrigue (1918) [CanLit]" Stringer, Arthur (1875-1950) (en) 4) "Chalet School #42—Theodora and the Chalet School (1959)" Brent-Dyer, Elinor Mary (1894-1969) (en) 5) "Jean Christophe: Dawn (1913) [PP Pool]" Romain Rolland (1866-1944) Tr: Gilbert Cannan (1884 – 1955) (en) 6) "Ragged Robin (1920)" Oldmeadow, Katharine Louise (1878-1963) (en) 7) "The Tai Race--Elder Brother of the Chinese (1923)" Dodd, William Clifton (1857-1919) (en) 8) "[Makers of Canada] Lord Elgin (1903) [CanLit][Canadiana]" Bourinot, John George (1837-1902) (en) 9) "Canadians and Their Commonwealth (1961) [Canlit]" Massey, Vincent (1887-1967) (en) 10) "The Opal Princess (1922)" Macbeth, Madge (1878-1965) (en) -- See more... 
1349 Now Proofreading.These books are currently being proofed and formatted by our volunteers. Sign up, log in, and start helping!!!! 1) "My Memoirs (1930)" Benson, Sir Frank Robert (1858-1939) (en) 2) "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth (1931)" Howard, Robert E. (1906-1936) (en) 3) "The Poor Gentleman (1928)" Hay, Ian (ps of John Hay Beith) (1876-1952) (en) 4) "Trigger Mortis (1958) [Johnny Liddell #11]" Kane, Frank (1912-1968) (en) 5) "Plain Folks--A Story of the Canadian Prairies (1926) [CanCon]" Whitehouse, Francis Cecil (1879-1959) (en) 6) "The Wall of Partition (1914) [RE-LAUNCH] [PP-Pool]" Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa), 1862-1921 (en) 7) "The Last Puritan (1936)" Santayana, George (1863-1952) (en) 8) "Essays and Addresses on the Philosophy of Religion (1921) [RE-LAUNCH]" Hügel, Friedrich von, baron, 1852-1925 (en) 9) "Rilla of Ingleside (1920) [Anne #8] [CanLit]" Montgomery, L. M. (1874-1942) (en) 10) "The Naulahka: A story of West and East (1892)" Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Balestier, Wolcott (1861-1891) (en) -- See more... |