[JohnLocke4]

Not to rationalize it, but it appears that they're gatekeeping the dataset to get access to the OCR-scans from the people they choose to share it with. This is to improve their existing service by making the content of books (and not just their title/tags) searchable.

As per the blog post: >What does Anna’s Archive get out of it? Full-text search of the books for its users.

[_vqpz]

Fair enough, it just seems like they're painting an even bigger target on their backs by restricting access to copyrighted material they don't own the rights to