Forwarding from Brewster Kahle:
From: Brewster Kahle <brewster@archive.org> To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org, Bowerbird@aol.com CC: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pglaf.org>, John Guagliardo <john@gutenberg.cc> Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] someone needs to (fwd)
bowerbird--
some very active volunteers have been taking the downloadeable pdf's from google's site and uploading them to the archive. the archive stores these, OCR's them to make them searchable, and if someone wants the pdf-- points them back to google.
we would like to see more of this. if there are volunteers to expand this program, we would like to play our part.
-brewster
Michael S. Hart wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:00:16 EDT From: Bowerbird@aol.com Reply-To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org, Bowerbird@aol.com Subject: [gutvol-d] someone needs to
someone needs to remount independently the scan-set from every single public-domain book that google has scanned...
might that be project gutenberg?
if not, then someone else needs to do it.
because it needs to be done...
those books don't belong to google, or to sony, or to barnes & noble, or to anyone else that google decides to share them with. those books belong to the public.
-bowerbird