{"id":477,"date":"2004-01-06T22:53:09","date_gmt":"2004-01-06T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=477"},"modified":"2004-01-06T22:53:09","modified_gmt":"2004-01-06T22:53:09","slug":"put-your-proofing-skills-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/01\/put-your-proofing-skills-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Put your proofing skills to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/blogs\/shenews\/\">Sheila Lennon<\/a> posted this notice on her blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><B>Is there a copy editor lurking inside you? <\/b>You might want to<br \/>\nhelp the all-volunteer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgdp.net\/c\/default.php\" target=\"_blank\">Distributed<br \/>\nProofreaders<\/a> put more free texts online for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project<br \/>\nGutenberg:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The first step to take to help us out would be to register to be a<br \/>\nnew proofreader&#8230; After you register be sure to read over<br \/>\nboth<br \/>\nthe email you receive as well as FAQ Central which provides helpful<br \/>\nresources on how to proofread. FAQ Central can be reached here or by<br \/>\nclicking &#8216;Help&#8217;<br \/>\nat the top of any screen. After you have registered &amp; read through<br \/>\nsome of the intro documents choose an interesting-looking book from<br \/>\nour Current Projects and try proofreading a page or two.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that there is no commitment expected on this site. Proofread<br \/>\nas often or as seldom as you like, and as many or as few pages as you<br \/>\nlike. We encourage people to do &#8216;a page a day&#8217;, but it&#8217;s entirely up<br \/>\nto you! We hope you will join us in our mission of &#8216;preserving the literary<br \/>\nhistory of the world in a freely available form for everyone to use&#8217;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheila Lennon posted this notice on her blog: Is there a copy editor lurking inside you? You might want to help the all-volunteer Distributed Proofreaders put more free texts online for Project Gutenberg: The first step to take to help&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/01\/put-your-proofing-skills-to-work\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}