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(a)bomis.com>
Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 07:38:02 -0800
To: wikipedia-l(a)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?
--Jimbo
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