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About This Site

Distributed 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 published after 1923, written by authors who died at least 50 years ago, more available to the public.

DPC software is licensed and available under GNU GPL v2. Source code can be found here.

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last changed Friday, December 17, 2021.

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Site Concept

This 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 Help

The 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

3512 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 Letter of Instructions (1923) [Solo]" Moresby, Louis (ps of Lily Adams Beck) (1862-1931) (en)
pages; Jan 6th, 2022 FadedPage

2) "The Transformist Illusion" Dewar, Douglas (en)
306 pages; Jan 6th, 2022 FadedPage

3) "The Ice-Demon (1933)" Smith, Clark Ashton (1893-1961) (en)
11 pages; Jan 4th, 2022 FadedPage

4) "The Man in the Yellow Raft (1969)" Forester, C. S. (1899-1966) (en)
191 pages; Jan 2nd, 2022 FadedPage

5) "The Coming Queen (1922) [Solo]" Moresby, Louis (ps of Lily Adams Beck) (1862-1931) (en)
pages; Jan 2nd, 2022 FadedPage

6) "A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) [Canlit]" De Mille, James (1833-1880) (en)
338 pages; Jan 2nd, 2022 FadedPage

7) "Mission to Tashkent (1946)" Bailey, Frederick Marshman (1882-1967) (en)
349 pages; Dec 31st, 2021 FadedPage

8) "La bibliothèque canadienne Tome IX, Numero 9 (Novembre 1 1829) [CanLit]" Bibaud, Michel (1782-1857) (fr)
20 pages; Dec 31st, 2021 FadedPage

9) "[Anniversary] La bibliothèque canadienne Tome IX, Numero 11 (Decembre 1 1829) [CanLit]" Bibaud, Michel (1782-1857) (fr)
20 pages; Dec 31st, 2021 FadedPage

10) "The Wailing Hybrid (1938)" Fearn, John Russell (1908-1960) (en)
46 pages; Dec 29th, 2021 FadedPage

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313 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) "Sweet Thursday (1954, 1966 reprint)" Steinbeck, John (1902-1968) (en)
273 pages; Jan 6th, 2022

2) "La bibliothèque canadienne Tome IX, Numero 10 (Novembre 15 1829) [CanLit]" Bibaud, Michel (1782-1857) (fr)
20 pages; Jan 6th, 2022

3) "The Midnight Folk (1927, 1985) [Kay Harker #1]" Masefield, John (1878-1967) (en)
225 pages; Jan 6th, 2022

4) "The Scribbler 1822-09-19 Volume 2, Issue 64" Samuel Hull Wilcocke 1766-1833 (Editor) (en)
16 pages; Jan 6th, 2022

5) "The Album (1933) [REVIEW 2031]" Rinehart, Mary Roberts (1876-1958) (en)
352 pages; Jan 5th, 2022

6) "Twenty-Three and a Half Hours' Leave (1918)" Rinehart, Mary Roberts (1876-1958) (en)
88 pages; Jan 5th, 2022

7) "Home for Christmas (1937) [REVIEW 2024]" Douglas, Lloyd C. (1877-1951) (en)
125 pages; Jan 5th, 2022

8) "The Golden Vanity (1923) [Solo]" Barrington, E. (ps of L. Adams Beck) (1862-1931) (en)
pages; Jan 3rd, 2022

9) "Fair Rosemonde (1921) [Solo]" Barrington, E. (ps of L. Adams Beck) (1862-1931) (en)
pages; Jan 3rd, 2022

10) "The Scribbler 1822-09-26 Volume 2, Issue 65" Samuel Hull Wilcocke 1766-1833 (Editor) (en)
16 pages; Jan 3rd, 2022

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1683 Now Proofreading.

These books are currently being proofed and formatted by our volunteers. Sign up, log in, and start helping!!!!

1) "[Anniversary] Wilfred Grenfell: His Life and Work (1959) [Review 2027]" Kerr, James Lennox (1899-1963) (en)
272 pages; Jan 6th, 2022

2) "Recompence--A Sequel to "Simon Called Peter" (1924)" Keable, Robert (1887-1927) (en)
368 pages; Jan 6th, 2022

3) "Castles and Kings (1959) [REVIEW 2055]" Treece, Henry (1911-1966) (en)
202 pages; Jan 6th, 2022

4) "[Anniversary] The Home Cook Book (1877) [CanLit]" Anonymous (Ladies of Toronto and Other Cities and Towns) (en)
389 pages; Jan 6th, 2022

5) "Son of the North (1954) [CanLit]" Camsell, Charles (1876-1958) (en)
272 pages; Jan 6th, 2022

6) "To a God Unknown (1933)" Steinbeck, John (1902-1968) (en)
189 pages; Jan 6th, 2022

7) "The Scribbler 1822-10-03 Volume 2, Issue 66" Samuel Hull Wilcocke 1766-1833 (Editor) (en)
16 pages; Jan 5th, 2022

8) "Book No. 132: Quick Tricks" Coats and Clark, Inc. (en)
36 pages; Jan 5th, 2022

9) "A Manitoba Chore Boy (1912) [CanLit] [CanCon]" Gill, Edward Anthony Wharton (1858-1944) (en)
101 pages; Jan 5th, 2022

10) "Worrals Carries On (1942, 1950) [Worrals #3]" Johns, Capt. W. E. (William Earl) (1893-1968) (en)
178 pages; Jan 5th, 2022

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