On 14 Dec 2010 at 19:41, Doug Norton wrote: > There is another excellent source of general historical information in the > web site <http://www.archive.org> This site has all sorts of > books/music/pictorial media etc. of anything that is not copyrighted and > someone has either scanned and uploaded. Completely free of charge but a > word of warning, is that when I came across this site I blew my broadband > "allowance" to pieces. It is very addictive like Trove. > > I just admire people who do this sort of thing so that people like myself > and the future generations can enjoy and have an appreciation of our > predecessors. Andrew a huge thank you. > > Doug and Val Norton > Hamilton > New Zealand > Doug and Val, That is from where the work came, unless of course, I grabbed it from Google Books, and then took it to archive.org. We upload the works in djvu format to Commons, and our proofreading tool at Wikisource can grab the text layer and we can proofread the OCR'd text side by side against the image page by page. We then transclude all the pages to our main namespace to display a text. For Wikisource, anyone who has a Wikipedia login, can login and proofread the text, and whether you do one page or fifty (or more for those dedicated committed people <grin>). I am slowly working through http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:The_Dictionary_of_Australasian_Biography.djvu and http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:A_colonial_autocracy,_New_South_Wales_under_Governor_Macquarie,_1810-1821.djvu plus 63 volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography and ... ;-) Plus always open for suggestions of other works of interest that people find at archive.org or google books. Regards, Andrew