On Wed, 24 May 2006 09:50:50 -0700 (PDT), Michael Hart <hart@pglaf.org> wrote: |General Catalog of Old Books and Authors Including Dates of Death.!!!!! For the rest of the world on Life+70 or Life+50, i.e. non USA, date of death is crucial for copyright. |http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/ngcoba.htm | |which now indexes 24,000 books available free online, including all |PG(US) & PG(Aus)'s books, along with some basic date information |about them and their authors where you can find more. IME a great site. He missed a couple of ?my? authors and added them quickly when I informed him. Check that he has your favourite authors. -- Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> "Intelligent Design?" my knees say *not*. "Intelligent Design?" my back says *not*. More like "Incompetent design". Sig (C) Copyright Public Domain