I could do this as I am always searching for books. This can cost a lot or a little, luck has a lot to do with it. Make a list and I can start looking then email likely purchases to Jimbo.
One we could probably use and would be worth paying a bit for would be the Cambridge History of English and American Literature. It is up on Bartelsby at
http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
Early volumes and perhaps all of the first edition of the Oxford English dictionary too
Most of the really good public domain reference books are in the better old libraries such as Yale and Oxford and can be viewed there and an evaluation made.
Fred
From: Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 07:38:02 -0800 To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] what to do with the money?
Imran Ghory wrote:
Something else we could do is use the money to obtain public domain books (e.g. biographical encyclopedias) that can be scanned/ocred and used for creating basic articles in areas which wikipedia currently lacks coverage.
What would something like that cost, anyway? My guess is that if someone wanted to do this, the cost would be close to zero anyway, am I wrong?
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