g. edward said:

   It would seem that, as of this morning,    Google has added a "Download PDF"    link to their public domain texts

fantastic. i was beginning to wonder, since they had never replied to the open letter i sent them. it would still be nice if we could just _buy_ a hard-drive from 'em with all the books on it. imagine how many libraries and schools and universities would leap to make that purchase. and the good will -- and proof of the value of their project -- would benefit google greatly... anyway, now we can get to work on doing o.c.r., and developing some automatic clean-up apps, in order to create a cyberlibrary in z.m.l. format... unless google wants to do _that_ for us too!       ;+) -bowerbird