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gnohmon wrote on Sun, May 12, 2002 05:16 AM UTC:

The copy of Murray that I own is the 1969 reprint, not the 1909 original.


It may well be that the reprint in some manner updated the copyright? Laws
on this subject have changed from time to time...

Project gutenburg is usually plain text files. Can Murray be appreciated
fully without the diagrams? No. Can it be appreciated to some extent? Yes,
of course.

Modern scanners may be able to extract the text pretty well, but then if
you don't proofread what the scanner said, the book is seen as if
through a scanner darkly
(title of a book by l cordwainer smith; always wanted to use that phrase in
casual conversation.)

Big job, no matter what. Big disk space, but there are so many terabytes
now, how else to fill them? Big download for the reader. But, what a book!
And how much we all owe to it!