I've downloaded a bunch of them, and the clearance requests will be coming in soon... But, The quality of the scanning work is often not very good, I've encountered the following already in a small sample of 25 texts - Missing pages - Double scanned pages - Blurred pages - Moving or bend pages - Hands covering parts of the text - Pages where part of the text is cut of. - Non-functional PDF files (all pages white) I would say, more files have missing pages than are complete. Conclusion: Quality control leaves something to be desired. This means, - Carefully check after downloading - Send out requests to volunteers to get missing pages. - Start the long process of turning it into a real ebook. I've downloaded several books that I have on the shelve ready for scanning, and here it saves a lot of work. Furthermore - Many interesting books are still snippets only, even if clearly out of copyright - Many of the oldest books are still without a PDF. Still a great resource, with lots of books I couldn't get even via ILL. Jeroen. Michael Hart wrote:
Google's controversial Book Search program is set to begin offering downloads of entire out-of-copyright texts. [...]
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