[gutvol-d] Re: the final report on a 5-year-long bet

"if they stop scanning because they think they've done it all, the public-domain is going to be unnecessarily truncated..." Wherever anyone chooses to stop because it's getting too hard, there will always be those who think they should go farther... Obviously things will slow down after the world hits 50%. . .! Why? The easiest 50% of books will already be done. . . . It will only get harder to find the other 50%, even though the tools for doing it will be more powerful. All this new power may keep the curve going up to 55%, even to 65%, but it will have to slow down when public domain is hard, harder, hardest to find or to identify.