Bowerbird@aol.com writes:

hey bruce, what's your latest count on how many books google has scanned?

how many public domain? post-1923?

When I search, I request a publication date range of 0-1922, so I shouldn't see any post-1922 works. I deleted the original table with the Google IDs for books that appear to be pre-1923 and are not available for full view, but I've been running a new search (still ongoing). At the moment, I've found 86,000 full view books, and 30,000 books with either no view, or snippet view. If you want to check it out further, go to http://www.pdbooks.zuhause.org/ I'm still working on getting MARC records from libraries for each title, but I've only got MARC records so far for about half of them. Even so, many of the older works have limited information, for example no subject categorizations. I probably won't have time to add any user validation code so that people will be able to "reserve" titles, or add additional notes about titles until September. Bruce