Jim At the risk of starting a war, I disagree. The foreign language books will never be read by most people who visit Gutenberg.org. Almost all people from the USA will be reading English language books. I do not download and will never have time in my lifetime to read these other books. I think the other language books should be on another site. I do think that the books should be digitized, but not listed with the main site's inventory. There could easily be a Gutenberg-spanish.org, Gutenberg-dutch.org, etc.to handle these books. Dan Weber My criteria has always been that if "enough" people want to read it, it's worth doing. Where "enough" is a pretty small number -- if people collectively spend more time reading it than I spend making it, it's probably a "success." Because I'm not putting in the effort in the first place unless [at least on some masochistic level] I'm enjoying the effort. Surprisingly, to me at least, looking at first 30-day download counts of recent additions it seems like just about everything meets this test. "Weak" performers would seem to be the less-common foreign language books, but I don't think people reading this thread would agree that would be a reason not to "want" them. _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d