OK, this looks potentially very useful (taken from the UK version of Macworld)
http://www.macworld.co.uk/education/...S&NewsID=21056
Description:
"Small London-based developer, Wooji Juice has introduced Voluminous, a Mac OS X application that finds, downloads, formats and manages collections of public domain books from the internet.
"Voluminous is offering access to 20,000 titles and promises to make new titles available regularly. The application allows users to search by title, author, or browse the topic catalogue (itself based on the Library of Congress classification scheme.)"
I shall be giving this a test drive this evening!