At 03:09 PM 26/03/2010, you wrote:
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For reference, I have two books still stuck in DP each of which has by now cost me many times the effort of doing the book entirely on my own.
good grief man did you even work on your own books as they went through the system? You moan and groan about it, yet your two projects went through all 5 rounds faster than many other projects. (only 61 days for My First Summer , and 300 days for The Genius). Normally if a PM is that excited about getting their project done they work on it themselves as much as possible and encourage others to as well. And there's nothing DP can do about PPers having a life.
There are another 66 books I have helped work on at DP which have not been posted, some of which are about three years old.
and there are 1135 projects that I have worked on still in the system at DP. Quick look at some of the oldest.. one has been in PP for 6 years. There aren't as many at DP as the numbers may say, many of them join and do one or two pages and go again. If you want to speed things along do more pages, you're averaging less than one page a day. Don't complain about someone else not working on things when you don't. let's all just do our best and let the rest do the same JH ================================================================================ "Turning a Picture into a thousand words" Preserving History One Page at a Time!! Celebrating more than 17,000 books posted to Project Gutenberg! Join Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders http://www.pgdp.net/c/ ================================================================================