If I could find people willing to pay $5 US per 1000 words read, I think I could make a fair living at proofreading. And frankly, after pricing proofreading service at scribendi I would say that even my preferred price of $10.00 per thousand words is pretty much underselling the market. Then again no one here (or not many) are producing professional works that are earning them a living either so I do understand that if I sell said service here I may have to price the service differently than it would be for other writing efforts. Still I have to agree with scribendi (www.scribendi.com) if you really want your work to look good, a proofreader is indispensable and the price, except for long tomes (I wouldn't be reading any such work just now...) is not really that high... Okay at $10.00 per thousand words a 65,000 word book would run $650. Like I said, for most of what I've read here I'd half that price. But again it would mean that more people would have to avail themselves of the service. Right now I'm going to be looking into paypal again. The main issue is that if I use a payment processor they require to know my actual physical address (One supposes this is so the infernal recovery scourge can find you) which makes me paranoid beyond measure. I just don't trust them not to let such info out to places other than the infernal rectal scourge. ...