A little more information.
That same project (which is 232 pages, about 1/8 of one volume out of 29 volumes.)
It was being P3 proofread from April to November of 2007 (about 7 months).
Then it sat in queues with no one working on it from Nov. 2007 to Sept. 2009
(almost two years) except for a brief spell (3 months) when it was in F1.
And that was pretty speedy. A new project (such as I'm preparing now, which will
be 300+ pages,) will not be quite so fortunate, because now the queues are
much longer; and more significantly, there will be many more EB volumes
ahead of it when it gets to each queue.
So I'd be prepared to spend some time proofing at least (if you don't prefer
formatting and PP) so help it along in those brief windows of opportunity
(roughly 9-12 months) when it's available to anyone at all. (But given
well-established trends, it will probably be much longer.)
Fortunately, you'll have lots of time to scan and OCR each project. In
fact, I bet you'll be so fortunate as to have a new generation of scanning
technology available every couple of projects or so.
It may easily take longer to proof, format, and publish the ebook than it
took for the original - an acknowledged epic in itself.
For sure, it could be re-typeset in a small fraction of the time.
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Robert Cicconetti
<grythumn@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:04 PM, don kretz <
dakretz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a point of reference for you.
> The current Encyclopædia Britannica project in F2 has been there since
> September.
> Number of pages: 232
> Pages remaining: 24
> Pages I've done: 203
> Pages other people have done: 5
> Some rounds get cherry-picked pretty badly; and OED is not a cherry.
> Stay away from buses.
check for F2 skip if I don't have to find a PP in advance.
Let me be blunt... I'm easily distracted; doing this kind of markup
would drive me nuts quickly and result in orphaned projects. I'll prep
the images, run OCR, answer questions, write the code to do the
automated checks. But I don't PP or format.
-Bob