{"id":205,"date":"2004-10-09T13:42:52","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T14:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=205"},"modified":"2007-09-14T23:37:38","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T22:37:38","slug":"a-richer-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/2004\/10\/a-richer-world","title":{"rendered":"A richer world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I am proud to be one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgdp.net\">Distributed Proofreaders<\/a>. We just posted a bumper crop of unique etexts to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.net\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>. Everything from &#8220;The Psychology of Sex&#8221; to &#8220;Slave Narratives&#8221;, from the &#8220;Poems&#8221; of Jonathan Swift to &#8220;Historie de la R\u00c3\u00a9volution fran\u00c3\u00a7aise&#8221;, from &#8220;Punch&#8221; to &#8220;Scientific American&#8221;. Most of these are hard texts, that really show the strenght of DP. By distributing the workload, we make difficult projects manageable. And by making projects manageable, we are creating a rich soil for them. Fifty public domain texts have become available, accessible, rippable, burnable, searchable, mixable, quotable, learnable, giveable, malleable, tellable, et ceterable. <\/p>\n<p>You can find a list of links to the fifty books at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.nl\/press\/dp-5000-pr\">http:\/\/www.gutenberg.nl\/press\/dp-5000-pr<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I am proud to be one of the Distributed Proofreaders. We just posted a bumper crop of unique etexts to Project Gutenberg. Everything from &#8220;The Psychology of Sex&#8221; to &#8220;Slave Narratives&#8221;, from the &#8220;Poems&#8221; of Jonathan Swift to &#8220;Historie de la R\u00c3\u00a9volution fran\u00c3\u00a7aise&#8221;, from &#8220;Punch&#8221; to &#8220;Scientific American&#8221;. Most of these are hard texts, &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/2004\/10\/a-richer-world\" class=\"excerpt-read-more read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-gutenberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}