Hi Anne, In general, you need to put yourself in the position of the person owning the copyright and ask yourself if someone did what I am thinking of, would I be upset? If the answer is yes, then you shouldn't be doing it. For instance, if someone wrote a summary it could be written in such a way as to destroy the sales of a book (e.g. a detective story summary giving the plot and the way it's solved would almost certainly destroy sales!). On the other hand it could be written in such a way as to increase sales e.g a review published in a newspaper. I am not a lawyer (I'm an electronic design Engineer/Consultant) and so anything I tell you other than what I've investigated with regard to copyright could well be wrong, so you will need to investigate specifics for yourself. There are of course two ways of using copyright: 1. To prevent people copying your work to destroy sales or make a profit for themselves. 2. To prevent people copying your work which has been given free in order to make a profit for themselves (e.g. the data on the Genuki site). You might like to read my Genuki conditions of use page which may well seem well over the top, but I always seem to be having to deal with unreasonable people when I find Genuki data copied. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/conditions.html You would not believe some of the excuses people come up with when I send them an invoice! Best wishes, Colin Hinson In the village of Blunham in Bedfordshire U.K. Maintainer of the Genuki Yorkshire pages: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ Rare Books on CD: http://www.blunham.demon.co.uk/CDroms/ Baine's & Bulmers directories, History of Craven, Heywood/Northowram, National gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland, Whelan's York & NRY >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Colin, I have read your note about copyright, but I assume it is OK in the instance of the 1881 Almanack, as I assume the book is pretty old, and is out of print. (Or is it on microfiche or CD?) Some of the books which people have mentioned, are not even available at the British Library. Also, as far as I know, anyone can create an edited summary, or an index where there isn't one in the book, and can send that to anyone: the copyright rules apply to exact, or almost exact, copies of any part of the book (of more than a few words in length), although the author's name and the title of the book should be quoted in the case of summaries etc. Is this correct? Anne