Surviving the /.ing

Distributed Proofreaders (of which I may have gushed earlier) has recently posted its 5000th project to Project Gutenberg (not individual unique item mind you, some books/works were split for various reasons but we're getting close to 5000 of them too). This got mentioned on /. thus prompting the 3rd slashdot wave to enter DP. As I've now been at this for quite some time now (I only recently realised it's over a year) I do some mentoring giving feedback to people doing their first proofing pages, and over the last 4 or 5 days it's been on the almost frantic side trying to keep up and give feedback in a timely fashion so as to keep people interested.

So much is easily lost or discarded in today's world that the goal of DP - Preserving History, one page at a time - really resonated with me. It's interesting in any case, as you never know what people are going to find to make projects, from victorian pot-boilers, to treatises on gunpowder, to Chaucer poetry, and stuff still written in Englifh :) There's usually something there that is interesting to read as well as proof. Although that part of me that likes a challenge has been known to proof (if not understand) latin poetry, english grammar texts, and one that boggled even me, Virgil's Aenid translated into Scots verse (and I'm talking broad scots here)

Ah well, back to mentoring.