There are a number of books hosted on this site. They are all page scans of books that are in the public domain. All of the books have their copyrights cleared through Project Gutenberg and will eventually end up in the PG archives as text files. In the mean time the page scans are available here.
If you're interested in doing this kind of thing for PG, here is my list of books that might be in the public domain and aren't already in PG. Check the copyright date on the book you are thinking about doing. It must be 1922 or earlier. Clearing a book from 1923-1963 is very complicated. I'm usually looking for books from this list while at old book stores. All books you are thinking about doing should be checked against David's In-Progress List first.
All of the OCR/proofing work is being done at the Distributed Proofing site.
The copyright notices sprinkled throughout the book pages are for the html and arangement. To the best of my knowledge the page scans themselves aren't even copyrightable in the US. Regardless, if you want a copy of the page scans let me know and I'll tar them up for you.
Most of the page scans were created by scanning the books on an Epson ES-600C parallel port flat bed scanner. Some of the books had their bindings removed and were scanned a page at a time, and some were simply laid flat on the scanner and had facing pages scanned together. The images were processed with perl scripts to autocrop, rotate and split facing pages. Touch-up image editing was performed in Picture Publisher and the Gimp. The initial scan was done with either SANE or Picture Publisher. All of the scans are B/W at 300 dpi. 300 dpi is the mechanical scanning limit of the ES-600C.
The versions of the books linked to at Amazon aren't the versions used to generate the page scans. The page scans are from mostly beat up to the point of falling apart pre-1923 editions that I've acquired at various used book stores. The "Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice" is from the Des Moines Public Library. The "Tom Swift and his Wireless Message" is an inter-library loan from the Florida International University Library. The "Tom Swift and his Photo Telephone" is an inter-library loan from the University of Iowa Library. Special thanks to Jim Towey and Adventure Continues for missing Tom Swift pages and donating the copy of "Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight".
Rolling Stones by O. Henry
buy in paperback
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The Trimmed Lamp by O. Henry
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Undine by De La Motte Fouque
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Tom Swift and his Motorcycle by Victor Appleton
buy in paperback
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Tom Swift and his Wireless Message by Victor Appleton
buy in paperback
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Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice by Victor Appleton
buy in paperback
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Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle by Victor Appleton
buy in paperback
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Tom Swift in the City of Gold by Victor Appleton
buy in paperback
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Tom Swift in Captivity by Victor Appleton
buy in paperback
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Tom Swift and his Great Search Light by Victor Appleton
buy in paperback
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Tom Swift and his Photo Telephone by Victor Appleton
buy in paperback
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Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll buy in paperback
The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll
buy in paperback
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Thanks to Chris Meadows for loaning the next three books.
Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc
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The Hollow Needle by Maurice Leblanc
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Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki
buy in paperback
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The first twenty-five Tom Swift books are public domain. There are thirty-eight books in the original series and two more Whitman Better Little Books added to it.
Starting here I got an HP Scanjet 4si. This is a fast network scanner from about 1995. It had a Token-Ring/Netware network controller that was removed. It's much faster than the Epson and it has an Automatic Document Feeder on it. Somewhere in here I got an HP USB scanner to replace the Epson. It's physicaly smaller with a larger glass bed and much faster. It's not as fast as the SCSI HP, but it's more portable and does color.
The Outdoor Girls In Army Service by Laura Lee Hope
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Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point by H. Irving Hancock PG text
Lost on the Moon
by Roy Rockwood
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On a Torn-Away World
by Roy Rockwood
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The Meadow-Brook Girls By The Sea by Janet Aldridge PG text
The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms by Laura Lee Hope PG text
Coming to the King by Frances Ridley Havergal PG text
Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett P. Serviss Buy a Paperback PG text
Star Surgeon by Alan E. Nourse PG text
The Boy Scouts in Russia by Captain John Blaine PG text
Brigands of the Moon by Ray Cummings PG text
The Black Star Passes by John W. Campbell
Islands of Space by John W. Campbell
Invaders from the Infinite by John W. Campbell
Storm over Warlock
by Andre Norton
Baen currently has this in print as
a combined edition with Ordeal in Otherwhere and Forerunner Foray.
buy in paperback
Plague Ship
by Andre Norton
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Tor currently has this in print as
part of The
Solar Queen.
Star Born by Andre Norton PG text
Time Traders
by Andre Norton
Baen currently has this in print as
a combined edition with Galactic Derelict.
buy in paperback
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The Defiant Agents
by Andre Norton
Baen currently has this in print as
a combined edition with Key Out of Time.
buy in paperback
Key out of Time
by Andre Norton
Baen currently has this in print as
a combined edition with The Defiant Agents.
buy in paperback
The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper buy in paperback or buy in paperback PG text
Four Day Planet by H. Beam Piper buy in paperback PG text
Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire
Uller Uprising by H. Beam Piper PG text
Time Crime by H. Beam Piper buy in paperback PG text
Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper buy in paperback PG text
A Catalog of Early Pennsylvania and other Firearms by Henry W. Shoemaker and H. Beam Piper
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet by Blake Savage (Harold Leland Goodwin) PG text
Space Tug by Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins) PG text
This World Is Taboo by Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins) PG text
Operation Terror by Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins) PG text
Operation: Outer Space by Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins) PG text
periodical renewals from The Catalog of
Copyright Entries by The Library of Congress
This covers 1951
through 1977 with some years incomplete.
Tom Swift and The Electronic Hydrolung by Victor Appleton II
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Tom Swift and The Visitor From Planet X by Victor Appleton II
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Badge of Infamy
by Lester del Rey
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The Sky is Falling
by Lester del Rey
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Legacy by James H. Schmitz first published as "A Tale of Two Clocks"
Ralestone Luck
by Andre Norton
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The Runaway Skyscraper
by Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins)
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Warlord of Kor
by Terry Carr
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Space Prison by Tom Godwin
Man of Many Minds by E. Everett Evans
Genesis by H. Beam Piper PG text
Graveyard of Dreams by H. Beam Piper PG text
The Fourth R by George O. Smith PG text
Spacehounds of IPC by E.E. Smith
Stand by for Mars! by Carey Rockwell PG text
The Revolt on Venus by Carey Rockwell PG text
Danger in Deep Space by Carey Rockwell
Treachery in Outer Space by Carey Rockwell PG text
On the Trail of the Space Pirates by Carey Rockwell
Sabotage in Space by Carey Rockwell PG text
The Space Pioneers by Carey Rockwell PG text
The Gifts of Asti by Andre Norton (as Andrew North) PG text
Ride Proud, Rebel! by Andre Norton
Crossroads of Destiny by H. Beam Piper PG text
Flight From Tomorrow by H. Beam Piper PG text
Operation R.S.V.P. by H. Beam Piper PG text
The Answer by H. Beam Piper PG text
Null-ABC by H. Beam Piper buy in paperback PG text
Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton PG text
Time and Time Again by H. Beam Piper PG text
He Walked Around the Horses by H. Beam Piper PG text
Police Operation by H. Beam Piper PG text
The Mercenaries by H. Beam Piper PG text
Last Enemy by H Beam Piper PG text
Dearest by H. Beam Piper PG text
Temple Trouble by H. Beam Piper PG text
Day of the Moron by H. Beam Piper PG text
The Return (from Astounding) by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire PG text
Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper PG text
The Edge of the Knife by H. Beam Piper PG text
Ministry of Disturbance by H. Beam Piper
Hunter Patrol by H. Beam Piper PG text
Oomphel in the Sky by H. Beam Piper
Naudsonce by H. Beam Piper PG text
A Slave is a Slave by H. Beam Piper
Space Viking by H. Beam Piper
Rebel Raider by H. Beam Piper PG text
The Skylark of Space by E.E. Smith
Skylark Three by E.E. Smith
The Galaxy Primes by E.E. Smith
Triplanetary by E.E. Smith
The Fair Play Settlers by George D. Wolf
Manhood of Humanity by Alfred Korzybski
Rebel Spurs by Andre Norton
Star Hunter by Andre Norton PG text
Code Three by Rick Raphael PG text
Stop Look And Dig by George O. Smith
Police Your Planet by Lester del Rey
Highways in Hiding by George O. Smith
Regeneration by Charles Dye
Ten From Infinity by Ivar Jorgensen
The Girl in the Golden Atom by Ray Cummings
The White Invaders by Ray Cummings
The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley
Morale by Murray Leinster
The Infra-Medians by Sewell Peaslee Wright
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