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About This SiteDistributed 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.
Front Page News
last changed Friday, August 7, 2026.
Welcome to Distributed Proofreading Canada!
We produce eBooks for posting to Faded Page.
Do read the "Site Concept" and "How You Can Help" sections below.
After registering and logging in, there are various posts under the Forum Categories that will answer many questions. You can also ask a question in any of the forums. We welcome all new volunteers!
Do check out our twice-monthly newsletter published on the first and third Fridays. It is capably managed by Quill. The newest issue is posted here.
Please Note:
To read posts in the forums, you now need to log in.
This is a protection for the site and our members.
Thank you for your understanding.
IonaV, Site Admin
Occasionally members may have problems with logging in or staying logged in.
If it happens to you, you can report it in the forums.
See this post about "Getting bumped out" while you are logged in.
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
6001 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) "Greater Love Hath No Man (1913) [CanCon]" Packard, Frank L. (1877-1942) (en)
314 pages; Aug 10th, 2026
FadedPage
2) "The New Generation (1923)" Redpath, Beatrice (1886-1937) (en)
9 pages; Aug 10th, 2026
FadedPage
3) "Canada and The Grand Trunk, 1829-1924" H. A. (Henry Almon) Lovett (1866-1944) (en)
249 pages; Aug 10th, 2026
FadedPage
4) "Camp Keema 2—Peggy and the Brotherhood (1936)" Oxenham, Elsie J. [Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley] (1880-1960) (en)
240 pages; Aug 9th, 2026
FadedPage
5) "The Corpse on the Bridge (1928)" Barry, Charles (ps of Charles Bryson) (1877-1963) (en)
277 pages; Aug 9th, 2026
FadedPage
6) "The Canadian Horticulturist Volume 09, No. 02" D. W. (Delos White) Beadle and L. Woolverton, M.A. (en)
26 pages; Aug 7th, 2026
FadedPage
7) "The Wingless Victory (1936)" Anderson, Maxwell (1888-1959) (en)
102 pages; Aug 7th, 2026
FadedPage
8) "Tomorrow About This Time (1923)" Hill, Grace Livingston (1865-1947) (en)
341 pages; Aug 6th, 2026
FadedPage
9) "The Mortal Storm (1938) " Bottome, Phyllis (1882-1963) (en)
361 pages; Aug 5th, 2026
FadedPage
10) "Sub Specie Temporis (1951) [CanCon]" Innis, Harold Adams (1894-1952) (en)
5 pages; Aug 4th, 2026
FadedPage
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361 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) "Possession (1917) [REVIEW 2061]" Wadsley, Olive (1885-1959) (en)
452 pages; Aug 10th, 2026
2) "Expelled From School (1919)" Oxenham, Elsie J. [Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley] (1880-1960) (en)
324 pages; Aug 10th, 2026
3) "The Unknown Quantity (1924)" Dell, Ethel M. (1881-1939) (en)
444 pages; Aug 10th, 2026
4) "The Maple Leaf Vol. 4 No. 05 May 1854" Lay, Eleanor (1812-1904), Editor (en)
32 pages; Aug 10th, 2026
5) "Biggles--Air Detective (1952) [Biggles #43]" Johns, Capt. W. E. (William Earl) 1893-1968) (en)
150 pages; Aug 10th, 2026
6) "One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts (1955)" Jackson, Shirley (1916-1965) (en)
19 pages; Aug 8th, 2026
7) "Silver Feet (1929) (solo)" Redpath, Beatrice (1886-1937) (en)
15 pages; Aug 8th, 2026
8) "The Hidden Road (1928)" Sutherland, Joan (ps of Joan Maisie Collings) (1890-1947) (en)
247 pages; Aug 8th, 2026
9) "Prairie Born and Other Poems (1911) [CanLit] [CanCon]" Stead, Robert J. C. (1880-1959) (en)
96 pages; Aug 8th, 2026
10) "The Laughing Queen (1927, 1929) [CanCon]" Moresby, Elizabeth Louisa (as E. Barrington) (1865-1931) (en)
314 pages; Aug 7th, 2026
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1242 Now Proofreading.
These books are currently being proofed and formatted by our volunteers.
Sign up, log in, and start helping!!!!
1) "The Red-Haired Girl (1926) [Fleming Stone #21]" Wells, Carolyn (1862-1942) (en)
319 pages; Aug 10th, 2026
2) "The Serpent's Tooth (1956)" Deeping, Warwick (1877-1950) (en)
321 pages; Aug 10th, 2026
3) "From Dusk Till Dawn (1943)" Street, A. G. (Arthur George) (1892-1966) (en)
136 pages; Aug 9th, 2026
4) "Strange Fruit (1944)" Smith, Lillian (1897-1966) (en)
320 pages; Aug 9th, 2026
5) "The Township of Time (1959) [CanLit]" Bruce, Charles Tory (1906-1971) (en)
241 pages; Aug 9th, 2026
6) "Tales From the Margin (1971) [Canlit] [Review 2046]" Grove, Frederick Philip (1871-1948) (en)
333 pages; Aug 9th, 2026
7) "The Furthest Fury (1924) [Fleming Stone #16]" Wells, Carolyn (1862-1942) (en)
321 pages; Aug 8th, 2026
8) "Sing for Your Supper (1963)" Frankau, Pamela (1908-1967) (en)
288 pages; Aug 8th, 2026
9) "The Mayflower; or Ladies Acadian Newspaper Volume 1, Issue 4 of 9" Herbert, Mary Eliza [Editor] (1829-1872) (en)
32 pages; Aug 7th, 2026
10) "The Round-Up (1933) [Cassidy #24]" Mulford, Clarence E. (1883-1956) (en)
316 pages; Aug 7th, 2026
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