Now that Google has an arrangement to scan materials from several libraries, they should be getting a large number of public domain texts in their system. There's been at least one project in DP based on a Google Print source, so we know that their images are potentially good enough for our OCR. I have been looking for books in their system that can be used by DP without any success. Therefore, I encourage everybody to go to Google Print and ask them for three search filters: Search for "by this author only" Search for "by this title only" Search for "this work is public domain" For the "public domain" entry, please give the rationale that you tried to look up your favorite long dead author (died prior to 1922), and could only find entries that were listed as copyrighted material only because the publisher of the book slapped on an introduction sometime in the last 30 years, and this prevented you from reading the book itself, which is in the public domain. The following is the URL for making suggestions to Google about the Google Print service: http://services.google.com/inquiry/print_feedback