James Buddenhagen wrote:
...This makes me think Google has changed policy on this, perhaps for copyright liability reasons. ... If Google employees or anyone can shed more light on these matters I would be interested to know what is going on.
I'm afraid we're into "I can neither confirm nor deny" territory here, so I'm going to keep my mouth shut. Maybe when I've been here longer I'll know enough to be allowed to say more.
In any case, this greatly diminishes the usefulness for me of these books. Since the online versions are searchable it is clear that OCR has been done on them, but is not made available in the downloads.
I'll just point out that the full text is often downloadable from the same page as the PDF of the images. --Michael Kleber -- It is very dark and after 2000. If you continue you are likely to be eaten by a bleen.