I know that I went with Hapgood because it's what's on gutenberg, and I wouldn't be surprised if I'm not alone in that. I'm just used to gutenberg - I've never taken the time to get the hang of google books. You say there are multiple available on google books "if you know how to look" and I don't. I just tried actually, and it took me an embarrassingly long time even to just find the text to a copy of Wilbour!

Also you can copy-past text from the Hapgood in a way you can't as easily from the pdfs on google books, which makes things much more convenient for quoting bits of the brick in online discussions.

And also you can download the Hapgood from gutenberg in multiple convenient ebook formats.


I think it would be a really useful resource if people WERE to go through and ocr and manually edit the texts of other old translations! I would certainly volunteer to help if this project took off.