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About This Site
Distributed Proofreaders Canada (DPC) was founded in 2007
by Michael Shepard and David Jones to support the digitization of Public Domain
books. Our inspiration was Distributed Proofreaders
International (DP), which was originally conceived to prepare texts for
Project Gutenberg (PG). Just as DP is now the main
source of PG eBooks, DPC now provides many of the books for
FadedPage (FP)
that started on March 22, 2012.
All our proofreaders, managers, developers and so on are
volunteers. The main principles of our mission are to: (1) preserve Canadiana,
one page at a time, (2) take advantage of the favourable copyright laws in
Canada to make books written by authors who died before 1972
more available to the public.
DPC software is licensed and available under GNU GPL v2. Source code can be found
here.
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Site Concept
This site provides a web-based method of easing the proofreading work
associated with the digitization of Public Domain books into FadedPage
eBooks. By breaking the work into individual pages many proofreaders
can be working on the same book at the same time. This significantly speeds up
the proofreading/eBook creation process.
When a proofreader elects to proofread a page of a particular
book, the text and image file are displayed on a single web page. This allows
the page text to be easily reviewed and compared to the image file, thus
assisting the proofreading of the page text. The edited text is then submitted
back to the site via the same web page that it was edited on. A second
proofreader is then presented with the work of the first proofreader and the
page image. Once they have verified the work of the first proofreader and
corrected any additional errors the page text is again submitted back to the
site. The book then progresses through two formatting rounds using the same web
interface.
Once all pages for a particular book have been processed, a
post-processor joins the pieces, properly formats them into a FadedPage
eBook, optionally makes it available to interested parties for 'smooth
reading', and submits it to the FP archive.
How You Can Help
The first thing to do is register as a new user (button at top right).
Choose a user name and a password. After you register
be sure to read over both the email you receive as well as the Getting started information page
which provides helpful resources on how to proofread. After
you have registered and read through some of the intro documents, we have special projects
with the BEGIN identifier which will give you an introduction to the proofreading process. If you proofread
in a BEGIN project there will be helpful mentors to offer constructive feedback on your work.
All of our initial projects can be found in the P1 list (button at top right).
You can also have a look at the Smooth Reading Projects List
where you can read some of the newly finished books. These have yet to be posted to our eBook archive,
Faded Page and we use this place to get some final feedback.
Proofread whenever you like. We encourage people to do ‘a page a day’, but it's entirely up to you! We hope you
will join us in our mission of ‘preserving the literary history of the world’ one book at a time.
Recent Projects
5759 Complete.
These books have been processed through our site and posted
to the Faded Page archive. They may also have been posted to Project
Gutenberg Canada and/or Project Gutenberg US.
1) "Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944) (1944) [CanLit]" Innis, Harold Adams (1894-1952) (en)
11 pages; Apr 12th, 2026
FadedPage
2) "Because of the Lockwoods (1949)" Whipple, Dorothy (1893-1966) (en)
359 pages; Apr 12th, 2026
FadedPage
3) "Black Lace (1938) [CanCon]" Salverson, Laura Goodman (1890-1970) (en)
255 pages; Apr 12th, 2026
FadedPage
4) "Fruit of Eden (1927)" Gerard, Louise (1878-1970) (en)
320 pages; Apr 11th, 2026
FadedPage
5) "The Bobbsey Twins on a Ranch (1935) [#28]" Hope, Laura Lee (Stratemeyer pseudonym) (en)
211 pages; Apr 10th, 2026
FadedPage
6) "The Same Old Troddles--A Book of Laughter (1919)" Andom, R. (ps of Alfred Walter Barrett) (1869-1920) (en)
267 pages; Apr 9th, 2026
FadedPage
7) "The Wife Traders (1936) [CanLit]" Stringer, Arthur (1875-1950) (en)
318 pages; Apr 8th, 2026
FadedPage
8) "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Volume 4" Various (en)
pages; Apr 8th, 2026
FadedPage
9) "Ben the Tramp #6—Detective Ben (1936)" Farjeon, J. Jefferson (1883-1955) (en)
238 pages; Apr 8th, 2026
FadedPage
10) "Jean-Christophe: Dans la maison (1908) (Jean Christophe #7)" Romain Rolland (1866-1944) (fr)
287 pages; Apr 7th, 2026
FadedPage
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439 In Progress.
These books have been proofed and formatted through our site but have
not yet posted—currently going through final post processing and
assembly.
1) "Timber Line--A Story of Bonfils and Tammen (1933)" Fowler, Gene (1890-1960) (en)
480 pages; Apr 12th, 2026
2) "The Coasts of Chance: She Loved Iberville (1938)" Bedford-Jones, Henry (1887-1949) (en)
18 pages; Apr 12th, 2026
3) "Paper Lanterns (1923)" Redpath, Beatrice (1886-1937) (en)
5 pages; Apr 12th, 2026
4) "The Problem of Mutual Understanding with Russia (1946) [CanCon]" Innis, Harold Adams (1894-1952) (en)
8 pages; Apr 12th, 2026
5) "Wolfshead (1926) [Solo]" Howard, Robert E. (1906-1936) (en)
pages; Apr 10th, 2026
6) "The Valley of the Worm (1934) [Solo]" Howard, Robert E. (1906-1936) (en)
pages; Apr 10th, 2026
7) "The House of Arabu (1951) [Solo]" Howard, Robert E. (1906-1936) (en)
pages; Apr 10th, 2026
8) "Marionette (1941) [CanLit]" Cunningham, Louis Arthur (1900-1954) (en)
304 pages; Apr 10th, 2026
9) "Royal Flush (1932)" Irwin, Margaret (1889-1967) (en)
362 pages; Apr 10th, 2026
10) "Cooking Afloat (1959)" Pinkerton, Kathrene (1887-1967) (en)
294 pages; Apr 10th, 2026
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1239 Now Proofreading.
These books are currently being proofed and formatted by our volunteers.
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1) "Unseen! (1937)" Terhune, Albert Payson (1872-1942) (en)
287 pages; Apr 12th, 2026
2) "Adam's Breed (1926, 1929)" Hall, Marguerite Radclyffe (1880-1943) (en)
414 pages; Apr 12th, 2026
3) "Faces in a Dusty Picture (1944)" Kersh, Gerald (1912-1968) (en)
132 pages; Apr 12th, 2026
4) "Cross-fire (1931)" Sutherland, Joan (ps of Joan Maisie Collings) (1890-1947) (en)
253 pages; Apr 12th, 2026
5) "The Life of Lord Selkirk, Coloniser of Western Canada (1912) [CanLit]" Bryce, George (1844-1931) (en)
112 pages; Apr 12th, 2026
6) "The Life of Francis Drake (1941)" Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) (1865-1948) (en)
458 pages; Apr 12th, 2026
7) "Death is No Sportsman (1938, 1981 reprint)" Hare, Cyril (ps of Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark) (1900-1958) (en)
230 pages; Apr 12th, 2026
8) "The Beauty, History, Romance and Mystery of the Canadian Lake Region (1910) [CanLit]" Campbell, William Wilfred (1860-1918) (en)
224 pages; Apr 11th, 2026
9) "The Tryst (1921)" Hill, Grace Livingston (1865-1947) (en)
353 pages; Apr 11th, 2026
10) "Camp Keema 2—Peggy and the Brotherhood (1936)" Oxenham, Elsie J. [Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley] (1880-1960) (en)
240 pages; Apr 11th, 2026
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