A massive trove of nearly 25,000 pages of Sarah Palin’s emails from her time as governor of Alaska will be released tomorrow, and the Washington Post has come up with a novel way of dealing with them – ask readers to pitch in.

“That's a lot of email for us to review so we're looking for some help from Fix readers to analyze, contextualize, and research those emails right alongside Post reporters over the days following the release,” writes WaPo’s Ryan Kellett.”We are limiting this to just 100 spots for people who will work collaboratively in small teams to surface the most important information from the emails.”



Soon after the emails are released Friday morning, MSNBC.com, in conjunction with Mother Jones and Pro Publica, plans to scan them and create an electronic archive. The emails to be released include correspondent that went between the Yahoo account of Palin and her husband and about 50 state officials. When one side of it passed through state mail computers, MSNBC.com writes, it became public record.



Update: The New York Times has posted a similar request on its "The Caucus" blog.



"We’re asking readers to help us identify interesting and newsworthy e-mails, people and events that we may want to highlight. Interested users can fill out a simple form to describe the nature of the e-mail, and provide a name and e-mail address so we’ll know who should get the credit," Derek Willis wrote.



Burgess Everett contributed to this report.