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Call it straight after finishing a page until the stretch the user chose is done, and again when they ask for more. Pass…" }, { "name": "start_blind_check", "description": "OPTIONAL lane, only for a user who reads the original language and asks to judge pages themselves: up to five random pages from different books, each with…" }, { "name": "submit_page_review", "description": "Record the verdict on one page of a shift. mode \"book-run\" (start_review_shift / continue_review_shift): the verdict and findings are YOURS, from reading the…" }, { "name": "propose_correction", "description": "During a review shift, propose a correction to a page's transcription (field \"ocr\") or English (field \"translation\"). A correction is a list of exact span…" }, { "name": "get_locus", "description": "Turn a CANONICAL CITATION into the actual leaves that carry it. 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