Karl:
"Joshua Hutchinson" <joshua@hutchinson.net> writes:
I realize that scans are important to you, but they simply are NOT to most of us, beyond their use as OCR sources.
The "us" seems to be a very limited crowd ;) Scans are very important to all of "us" who rely on texts they can verify. Without scans the scientific world (universities and similar intitutes) will simply ignore the Gutenberg texts.
Although it would be nice if we could also cater for the academic world, that is by no means necessary. The academic world has access to our texts; if that for some reason is unsufficient, we need to determine whether that is through some fault of ours. I submit it isn't. Nevertheless, if we could somehow also make the page scans accessible, that could be handy for several reasons. I believe Charles Franks was working on such a system?