mastodon 4.6.8Distributed Proofreaders (pgdp.net) converts public domain books into ebooks by distributing the work among many volunteers - preserving history one page at a time. Our ebooks are distributed for free by Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org). We have produced more than 50,000 ebooks so far.
Today Distributed Proofreaders celebrates the 50,000th unique title it has posted to Project Gutenberg: A dictionary of the art of printing by William Savage! Congratulations to everyone who has worked on this fascinating ebook.
Distributed Proofreaders is 25 today! https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/10/01/distributed-proofreaders-is-25/ #ebooks #publicdomain
Distributed Proofreaders gets cooking with Famous Old Receipts https://blog.pgdp.net/2026/02/01/famous-old-receipts/ #ebooks #cooking #cookbooks
Distributed Proofreaders goes to sea with Billy Budd https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/09/01/billy-budd/ #ebooks #HermanMelville #BillyBudd
A Distributed Proofreaders volunteer reflects on his 25 years preparing over 1200 e-books for posting at Project Gutenberg https://blog.pgdp.net/2026/03/01/my-25-years-at-distributed-proofreaders/ #ebooks #volunteer
Distributed Proofreaders rings in the New Year with The Minute Boys https://blog.pgdp.net/2026/01/01/the-minute-boys/ #ebooks #childrensbooks #AmericanRevolution
Distributed Proofreaders learns its lesson from Aesop one syllable at a time https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/07/01/aesop-in-words-of-one-syllable/ #ebooks #aesops_fables #childrensbooks
Distributed Proofreaders reaches for the stars with Newton's Principia https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/08/01/newtons-principia/ #ebooks #Principia_Mathematica #physics
Distributed Proofreaders ponders Poe's poetry https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/11/01/nevermore/ #ebooks #EdgarAllanPoe #poetry
Distributed Proofreaders examines the 16th-Century idea of "the beaute of women" https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/12/01/on-the-beauty-of-women/ #ebooks #beauty #women
@RealGene@hachyderm.io Interesting! Of course we wanted to leave it as it was in the book.