That sounds goods, I know of Gutenberg, but it is about time books out of copyright should be put on line. Do they type everything out then? would'nt like to do Ruskin's Modern Painters ;)
Guess so, in fact you can become a volunteer proof-reader for Project Gutenberg (how long would it take to do a page a day of Ruskin's Modern Painters :-) There's a Wikipedia entry on Project Gutenberg here -