don said:
>   I went through a little exercise to
>   put myself in the place of a potential volunteer -
>   someone who would like to contribute a book

i have been waiting, very patiently, for such people
to start crawling out of the woodwork, since 2006...

as time goes by, i have become _less_ convinced that
anyone will eventually emerge, not _more_ convinced.

but in the increasingly unlikely event someone _does_,
you could point them to the posts i made back in 2006
on the bookpeople listserve, where i detail the process.

the "feedback to umichigan" thread is particularly good,
since i cover a digitization from start to finish, in detail,
but the posts titled "monday morning quarterback" and
"continuous proofreading" also have additional pointers.

and if a dozen such people should (miraculously) appear,
let me know, and i will activate my site that allows people
to walk through the digitization process step by step, with
single-focus web-apps that help them negotiate each task.

-bowerbird