jon ingram said:
I've scanned almost a thousand books for Distributed Proofreaders, and the Internet Archive would be a great place to permanently store the images. Every time I've asked them on their website, however, they either haven't replied, or have said that letting outside people contribute material is something that they're planning on setting up, but with no firm date.
Woah there, cowboy. I've been waiting for DP to provide raw page scans for *years*. This is something I discussed with Charles & Juliet years ago. The whitewashers are ready. iBiblio is ready. We have other servers if growth is too fast. Yes, that includes the Internet Archive, where we have several usernames...plus our official backup mirror. I've also been pressing to get preprints from DP...scans before the postprocessing is done, to release "to the wild" before they're quite ready. (Last count there are over 800 of these.) There's even a new preprints section (though this might not be the way we'd to DP preprints) at http://preprints.readingroo.ms If you could help to move things forward on either scans or preprints, I'd be very grateful! (Ditto for anyone else reading.) -- Greg