Google Books was a great resource until the lawyers got involved. I was able to find and download (one screenshot at a time) a rare family history. The author died 100 years ago. The published disappeared 80 years ago. But now Google has locked it behind a limited preview.

Google probably has the best collection of high quality scans, followed by the Hathi Trust. None of which are useable by anyone outside of those systems.

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userbinator 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Does Anna's Archive have it now? They scrape tons of sources, Google Books and HathiTrust included.

	▲	qingcharles 17 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		A lot of Hathi is locked behind university and library access restrictions. I sometimes have to track down students or someone who has a local library card to get items I need.
	▲	SanjayMehta 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Not that I know of, I did upload the PDF to the original libgen but that particular domain has disappeared now.

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qingcharles 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I agree they're the best currently available, but a lot of their scans are straight garbage and need to be redone.

	▲	SanjayMehta 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A garbage scan is better than no book at all. Fortunately the book I needed was a clean scan.