There is no need for you to type in books, unless you really want to or the books were printed in one of the really old black letter fonts. OCR software is quite good these days as long as your images have sufficient resolution (usually 300 dpi). You might want to visit DP (www.pgdp.net) and see how we do things. We aim to spread out the effort of checking the output of OCR and of formatting the text to PG standards. We have ways to help you with everything beyond providing the initial images. JulietS Brent Gueth wrote:
I ahve some books I would love to type in and contribute to the list (I collect antique books) that were published pre 1923. Hence the copyright should be in the clear, though I know this is skepticical legal terriotory. Does anyone know gutenberg's plans going forward for volunteers that:
A. Don't have access to a scanner? B. Have books that are important to them so will not mail them off to another volunteer with one c. Have alternate methods to capture the data in equally verifiable means.