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    Did you know you were helping to digitize books?

    There's a blogpost here:
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    Or the longer(but worth-watching) TED talk here:
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    But basically, those re-catchpa things you often have to fill out to sign up for things or fill in forms on the web? There's one word that is a security word and the other word is from a book. If 10 people get the security word right and the same translation of the word, they can be sure it's accurate. This way they digitize 100 million words a day. My mind, blown.

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