In today's PG Weekly newsletter, and in a posting to the Book People mailing list, Michael Hart says: "This is the 4th Anniversary of The Distributed Proofreaders!!!" However, if you go to the DP site <http://www.pgdp.net/c/>, you'll see that it says that DP was founded in 2000. Moreover, Charles Franks posted to the gutvol-d list on April 20, 2000, saying (in part) "I have completed the working beta of a distributed proofreaders website." and giving a link. I'm not sure if that was the first public announcement of DP, but in any case, DP is about 5 years old. Michael Hart appears to be referring to the 4th anniversary of March 13th, 2001, which is when the PG Weekly newsletter says DP completed its first book (PG #3320). However, that book ("Mohammed Ali and His House" by Louise Muhlbach) was actually posted April 2nd, 2001, so it's unclear where the March 13 date comes from. Moreover, a month or so *before* then, the PG newsletter for February 2001[a] says "The Online Distributed Proofreading Team has completed 8 books since mid October 2000!". This suggests that DP completed its first book in mid-Oct 2000, which then might have appeared in the list at the bottom of the mid-October "PG needs you" email[b], but I don't see any DP books there. Instead, I believe the first DP book to be posted by PG was #3059 (Homer's "The Iliad", trans. Andrew Lang) which was posted by December 6, 2000[c]. [a] http://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/archive/PGMonthly_2001_02_07.txt [b] http://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/archive/Other_2000_10_18_Project_Gutenbe... [c] http://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/archive/PGMonthly_2000_12_06.txt -Michael Dyck