Susan Ehrlich wrote: > > Does anyone know of any other free book sites on the web? There are many but if you are interested in something in particular then search for it at Online Books. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ They don't have books themselves but their intent is to serve as the card catalog for online books published in English (plain text, HTML, Word, PDF, and images of pages are all valid formats as far as it cares.) For Eliot try my website: http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/books/explore.html and Project Bartleby: http://www.bartleby.com Bartleby also has the abridged version of "The Golden Bough." Someone wrote me privately with a question that can be paraphrased as "Is Gutenberg's text a violation of copyright?" I started to respond to it privately but decided to send what I had to the whole list: No, not in the U.S. but possibly in the U.K. and elsewhere. Project Gutenberg checks for copyright. I've contributed texts to Gutenberg (but not this) and I know that someone has to do the copyright approval before Gutenberg publishes. There was a strange case with "From Ritual to Romance." I had to correspond with the Gutenberg leader, Michael Hart, on that and found out from him that if it was published prior to 1923 anywhere then it is in the public domain in the U.S. (The problem was that the foreign phrases that Weston had in her book were in English and that part was probably under copyright. I supplied the original text and did lots of cleanup and they are using that text.) Some things that are in the public domain in the U.S. are not so in the U.K., E.U. and elsewhere. And then there are things in the public domain in Australia that are not yet public in the U.S. At the Online Books site you will see some e-texts listed as "No U.S. access." They are probably not accessible from sites in the U.K. either. Regards, Rick Parker