Indeed Project Gutenberg[1] has for a number of years been putting out-of-copyright books online. They take great pains[2] to make sure the books are no longer

Indeed Project Gutenberg[1] has for a number of years been putting out-of-copyright books online. They take great pains[2] to make sure the books are no longer in copyright. Another very important difference is that PG books are proofread by human beings and have a much, much lower rate of OCR errors than the bulk-scanned Google books which are, often, abysmally, disgustingly full of blatant scan errors, sometimes to the point of being unreadable. [1] http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page [2] http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Copyright_How-To http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Copyright_How-To