Greetings! I'm new to Project Gutenberg, but for the moment at least mildly excited about the possibility of helping out. As one of the FAQs suggest, I will probably start out with a bit of "distributed proofreading" over at http://www.pgdp.net Looking forward to the possibility of actually producing texts, I'm curious about the pros and cons of scanning vs typing. My impression is that scanning offers the relatively significant bonus of at least potentially having the scanned images available along with the text for proofreading and/or posterity. Scanning involves the page flipping or cutting and aligning or sheetfeeding plus all the technical wrangling involved in OCR compared to the, well, typing involved in typing. I'm guessing a decent typist is still superior to OCR from the proofreading point of view. Is my initial preference for typing (partially as an excuse to see how high I can push my typing speed ;) enough of a reason to ignore the "added value" of having scanned pages available? Ok, so these are largely rhetorical questions I suppose, but I'd love to hear any opinions and feedback (especially on issues I seem to have overlooked and likely haven't even imagined). Thanks. --Bill Landis bill.landis@gmail.com