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# Volunteers FAQ
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Volunteers FAQ
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Project Gutenberg welcomes contributions of eBooks from people with the interest, time,
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and skillset needed to meet our submission standards. Details of the process and the standards
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are at our copyright clearance site (https://copy.pglaf.org) and upload site (https://upload.pglaf.org).
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## Join Distributed Proofreaders, Instead
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Join Distributed Proofreaders, Instead
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For most people interested in producing eBooks, we recommend starting with Distributed Proofreaders (https://www.pgdp.net).
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With Distributed Proofreaders, you can get involved with different portions of the production pipeline
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described below. This is a much easier way to get started, and results in very high quality eBooks.
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If you simply want to suggest a book for digitization, DP has online forums for this, or you can
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simply send an email (contact information is on the site).
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## Being a Solo Producer
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Being a Solo Producer
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If you might be interested in producing an eBook yourself, here is some guidance.
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These steps are for eBooks that are in the public domain in the US, usually because the source
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printed book was published, and then the term of copyright protection expired. 'Project Gutenberg
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printed book was published, and then the term of copyright protection expired. ==Project Gutenberg
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does not accept contemporary or copyrighted works. See our How-To on submitting your own work,
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for information about our self-publishing portal.'
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for information about our self-publishing portal.==
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Note also that Project Gutenberg does not have a corps of volunteers who can take
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your partially-completed work and turn it into a completed eBook. Instead, join Distributed
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require access to source material, or are stylistic or subjective in nature, we
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might get in touch to discuss potential changes.
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Note that Project Gutenberg is not in the business of teaching HTML,
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More about HTML
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Project Gutenberg is not in the business of teaching HTML,
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however nearly all Project Gutenberg's editions now have
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both text and HTML files. The HTML files are not only
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important in themselves but are the master files for the
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different tools, including Notepad, NoteTab or word
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processors. The headings and footers of all our eBooks are
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very similar. The body of the file has text with various
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HTML tags such as <p>....</p>, <pre>....</pre>,
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<h2>....</h2> to make the html display give the text
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HTML tags such as ```<p>....</p>, <pre>....</pre>,
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enclosed between these html tags apppear differently.
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If you start with plain text, there are two very helpful programs that producers utilize: "guiguts"
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