so, i see p.g. hit number _forty_thousand_ about 10 days back... a volume entitled "extinct birds", from 1907, cataloging species that became extinct "within the last six or seven hundred years". fitting, since the goners will likely triple in the next 6 or 7 years. anyway... i'll still call it 30,000 for a while, because of non-books and dups, but 30,000 is a good number for volunteers to have accomplished. so congratulations and thanks to all the folks who worked so hard. it's too bad that e-books never caught on with the public, so that project gutenberg could've gotten all the credit that it deserved... oh, wait... that's right... the boat _did_ sail, but p.g. _missed_it_, because everyone here was lingering at the x.m.l. dock instead... oh well, i'm sure you'll get it all sorted out, sooner or later, eh? -bowerbird