First nut-growers book posted to Project Gutenberg
Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe reports that the first book related to the Northern Nut Growers Association (NNGA) has been posted at Project Gutenberg (PG). As you may remember, we reported on this rather unique joint venture between the NNGA and Distributed Proofreaders (DP) before. The latter are the largest supplier of etexts to Project Gutenberg.
The first of the books from the NNGA library to be posted to PG is “Nut Growing in the North: A Personal Story of the Author’s Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin” by Carl Weschcke (PG etext #18189). It was posted to PG on April 17. Currently there are 13 books/reports from the NNGA going through DP, with a number of others lined up. Read the extended report here.
A rather unique venture I wrote above the fold. What Distributed Proofreaders gets out of this is simple: access to more books. And what the NNGA gets out of this deal is also simple: a digitized library. If this is such a simple road to a win-win situation, then why aren’t more projects hooking up with Distributed Proofreaders?
As a matter of fact, a couple of organizations do cross-pollinate (to stay with the nut-growing jargon) with PG and DP. The most recent of these is the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL), a PG and DP for Christian literature rolled into one. The distributed proofreading interface of CCEL is actually older than that of DP!
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