Perhaps a more attainable goal would be for Wikipedians to gain access to
books NOT UNDER COPYRIGHT that Google has scanned and restricted. Pretty
much everything 1922 and earlier they have been good about making public
(1908 and earlier for the UK) but there are a vast number of titles which
are copyright clear for this reason or that for the 1923 to 1973 period
that they have hidden behind "snippet view." There is absolutely no
plausible copyright reason for them acting thus and that case might be made
much more easily than a dubious appeal to release files of copyrighted
materials because Wikipedians are on the side of the angels.
Just a thought.
Tim Davenport
Corvallis, OR
"Carrite" on WP