Hugh McGuire contacted me on PGDP back in March to test run his new startup, BookOven, before it went live. I wrote about on StumbleUponI a while back
Much along the lines of PGDP and Recaptcha, The Book Oven is aiming to make social-collaboration proofreading available for all publishers (public domain or otherwise), in a simple way by chopping text into sentence blocks, much in the way Recaptcha grabs single words. People discouraged by proofing whole pages on PGDP should find this more palatable, while proofing will be more accurate than the Recaptcha model as you aren’t just fixing a lone word.
It’s great to see that although it’s still calling itself an alpha, it’s now open to the public. More info is available on their blog. Nice work guys!
- Which doesn’t have much relevance now Twitter is around, no doubt unfortunate for the original owners who bought it from eBay recently. [↩]
