kmarcus - 11:14 pm on Oct 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

you'd think it'd be easy to get started if they want to play in the space by indexing the contents of project gutenberg. But i am not yet sure what makes this useful -- I can't think of a time when i have thought "gee, what was that line in edgar allen poe". If it's a technical question, i'm more likely to hit newsgroups/blogs/message boards.

No, I think more interesting are the technologies like copernic's summarize which summarize the actual texts for you. Or maybe "auto generate cliff's notes" applications. ;)