...killing the p3 proofers.
The problem is worse: under the pressure to produce, and having become "jaded" the p3'ers apparently do not bother to even look at the digitized images of the author's text but rather assume that they know best and introduce changes which are other than what the author wrote. There is also the problem of "false positives" -- once the errors left in the text become infrequent-enough the human mind wants to make changes to "show you're making a positive contribution" even when there was no error there that the P3'ers ought to be fixing. But even the p3 problem is nothing compared to the wait time in post-processing, where things can get hung up for about literally another year. If PG were able to easily accept a txt file now and the html version (and other versions later) not only would readers get some books a year earlier, but we could probably save some efforts that die and get lost somewhere between txt complete and html complete. Why does posting have to happen "all at once" ???