michael hart forwarded my post to brewster kahle, who responded:

bowerbird--

some very active volunteers have been taking the downloadable pdf's from google's site and uploading them to the archive.  the archive stores these, OCR's them to make them searchable, and if someone wants the pdf-- points them back to google.

we would like to see more of this.  if there are volunteers to expand this program, we would like to play our part.

-brewster

i admit the internet archive has fallen off my radar somewhat -- ever since i was banned from their listserves because i had the temerity to continue complaining about their o.c.r. flaws -- but i should have remembered that they are indeed remounting google's public-domain scans, and deserve kudos for doing so. so thank you, brewster, and internet archive. "universal access to knowledge" has always appealed to me, by virtue of its deep simplicity, but i find that more and more, lately, brewster, i am chagrined that google has subverted it... instead of a global library, we're getting a global book-store... and "free to all" increasingly means "dig out your wallet"... -bowerbird ************** An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222846709x1201493018/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&; bcd=JulyExcfooterNO62)