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I’ve finally started work in earnest on Unbindery. After sev­eral false starts on the look, I came up with this, which I like:

I also wrote the login system this after­noon. Devel­op­ment is going a little slower than I’d hoped, but it’s still not bad. I expect to have a pro­to­type up and run­ning within a few days (assum­ing I put in the time, that is; I’m also trying to finish those plays for the “Long Ago and Far Away” NPP set, so time is limited).

Since it’s been a while, I sup­pose I ought to men­tion what Unbindery actu­ally is. :) In a nut­shell, it’s a book dig­i­ti­za­tion web app — you see an image of a page on your screen and you type in what it says. (I’m also plan­ning to use it for OCR cleanup.) It’s effec­tively the same sort of thing as Dis­trib­uted Proof­read­ers, except that I’m trying to create a more aes­thetic and fun user expe­ri­ence. Some­thing more modern and not so 90s. :) I’m also trying to make it easier to pro­duce non-​English texts (like Thai).

Anyway, I’ll announce when the prototype’s up, and everyone’s wel­come to try it out — I want all the feed­back I can get.