Just wanted to mention this here as I proofread pages of expired-copyright books for them.

Project Gutenberg is making its massive collection of plaintext e-books available in CD and DVD images. The latest CD image is "Best Of August 2003"; the DVD covers all of Project Gutenberg from the very beginning to December 2003 (3.85GB).

You can download the image yourself, get it through a slightly safer checksum source like BitTorrent, or even have an overworked volunteer mail you a CD/DVD. With its error-checking options they prefer P2P networks, and they're encouraging BitTorrent right now (http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu:6969/).

The DVD is a treasure trove with over 9400 e-books on it (mine will be all together on my hard drive in about two days).

I took a humanities course this past spring semester, and it was not only a lifesaver for material, it saved me a bit of money on some of the books required for the class.

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