We (2 people from De Wikisource) have experience with that service. It takes more time than announced but there 20+ books scanned for us successfully. Unfortunately there is a very few selection of German books wich are in the Open Library - BPL has a lot of German books but it is sad that only a few are available for this great service. For English books the situation is much more better. When searching in the Open Library please note that all numbers given on the right side for "scannable" are wrong. You have to find catalog entries with at least "scannable (1)". Try e.g. search string German: scannable (1), but 183 books are scannable.

Bowerbird ... feel free to flood us with interesting notices like this ;-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <Bowerbird(a)aol.com> Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:21 AM Subject: [gutvol-d] need a book scanned? To: gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org, Bowerbird(a)aol.com this has been available for a few months now, but hasn't gotten the attention that it deserves... in conjunction with the boston public library, the open library -- or is it the internet archive?, or is it the open content alliance?, i can never tell -- is now offering a "scan on demand" service... if a public-domain book in the boston pubic library hasn't yet been scanned, you can bump its priority up to the top of the list by requesting it be scanned. within "3-5 days", it'll be scanned and placed online, with all the various formats, which includes the o.c.r. what a wonderful present, eh? "check it out" (so to speak): -bowerbird _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l