24,000 pages of Sarah Palin's emails have been released. Here's how to get involved in going through them

How do you get through 24,000 documents? Well, you enlist an army of readers to help us assess the document dump of the year.

They've been released as printed pages - yes, printouts of emails - in six boxes for each news organisation that requested them. We think it's important to get the documents out into the world as soon as possible and see what you think about them - just like we did with MPs' expenses.

Simon Jeffery scanning the Sarah Palin emails. Photograph: guardian.co.uk

So Simon Jeffery is in Juneau, Alaska, busily scanning the documents and sending them back to London where we'll publish them on the site here.

We've had a few messages complaining that the emails reveal personal details of senders such as email addresses etc. One thing people need to be really clear about is that this is not a leak; it's not Wikileaks. This is an official release of 24,199 documents, handed over by the State of Alaska - following freedom of information requests - printed on paper (the least accessible form possible). Some 2,275 have been witheld - and some of the ones we've received have been redacted. We're just making them accessible - and we need our readers' help to go through them.

Here's how you can get involved

Firstly, pick a page. Is it interesting? Let us know about it. There are two ways right now, with another coming soon:

You can

• Use the tagging tools at the bottom of each email page. We're working on this feature as we speak, so if you have trouble you can also:

• Tweet it to us @gdnpalin using the hashtags #palinemail and please include this page's URL eg http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/10/sarah-palin-emails-sarahpalin38

Or

• Email us at palin.emails@guardian.co.uk. Please include the url of the Palin email page.

And that's it - we'll keep you updated as we find out new things throughout the night and the weekend.

Multi-page emails - how to handle them

On each page there is a 'next' and 'previous' link to help you navigate around them. Alternatively, you'll see that each document has a number in the url - for example www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/10/sarah-palin-emails-sarahpalin384. The emails have been scanned in consecutive order - so if you're looking for the next page, or the previous one, you could just change the number in the url.

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