Well, is there no way for us in the “wrong” continent to download the books?
Some of the books were downloadable. But when I downloaded a few of them, and tried a fourth book Google thinks I’m a robot. 
And it keeps giving me this response thereafter:
We’re sorry…
… but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.
Hi, Mingshey.
It happens to me something similiar. When I download many books and I already get it… I open the file and my PC can´t open it. I have to download them one by one or two by two.
I had similar problems.
"We’re sorry…
… but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now."
The best way is to download the books one by one.
Klewlis wrote:
I’m just picky because we Canadians REALLY hate being confused with or grouped with americans. >
Canadians are particularly touchy about this due to a) our love-hate relationship with the US and b) the fact that we derive so much of our identity from NOT being American. It’s deeply rooted within our psyche. >
Klewlis-where is that wonderful Canadian politesse?
tjnor
politeness doesn’t preclude honesty. 
it’s no surprise that we would feel some amount of angst towards a country on which we depend for trade but which has continually screwed us over from day one. 
Salve Klewlis,
Is that building behind you in your photo where they hold the Edmonton Stampede?
tjnor
lol
The Stampede is in Calgary… Edmonton’s claim to fame is our ridiculous mall. And we have no buildings as glorious as the most humble chapel in Rome. 
Salve,
Well somebody at the Edmonton Northlands thinks they have a stampede:
http://www.foundlocally.com/Edmonton/Sports/Rec-CompSports.htm
Maybe they could hold gladitorial competitions at the Mall (maybe they have already?).
tjnor
weird, I’ve never heard of an edmonton stampede. It obviously isn’t well-attended or advertised. 
gladiatorial competitions in the mall would be hilarious. they may have to remove the massive pirate ship first…
Well, there’s a way to download books that are unavailable for users outside USA… I’m teaching both Greek and Latin and I’m also working on my PhD in Classics in Poland: without the help of google books I couldn’t even fancy to get some essential dissertations I needed (and which aren’t a subject to copyright in Poland!). If any of you want to know how to do it (it’s not illegal in any way!), please send me a private message.
A grab bag of full-downloads I have recently run across.
Babrius (fables in choliambics; late) by W.G. Rutherford. Has extensive notes in English beneath the main text.
Plato’s Euthyphro by W.A. Heidel. Notes again extensive.
The Isthmian Odes of Pindar, J.B. Bury. This is still highly enough regarded that modern commentators (Verdenius) still respond to it.
The Nemean Odes of Pindar, J.B. Bury. This was less carefully scanned.
All the works for Aristotle I’ve run across are shoddy scans.
Not exactly classical, but probably of interest to some textkittens, is E. Nestle’s Syriac Grammar with Bibliography, Chrestomathy and Glossary. It’s in an unforgiving style, but still something of a classic.
And a little Euripides…
Medea, A.W. Verrall. A fine scan, notes below the text.
Bacchae, A.H. Cruickshank. Pretty good scan, notes after text.
Cyclops, W.E. Long. Mostly good scan, with a few iffy pages. Notes after text.
Alcestis, H.W. Hayley. Acceptable scan; large apparatus, notes after text.
Hecuba, A.W. Upcott. Good scan; a beginners’ edition with notes and vocab after text.
Iphigenia in Tauris, W.N. Bates. Mostly good scan; freaky metrical analysis, notes under text.
A few on Greek verse composition have been appearing.
An Introduction to Greek Verse Composition with Exercises, Sidgwick & Morice. This is the classic. On iambics only.
Greek verse composition, a revised ed. of the Greek verses of Shrewsbury school, by G. Preston. Old-fashioned conception of the iambic trimeter, but includes it, tetrameters and anapests in the exercises. Starts you off on half-lines.
Demonstrations in Greek Iambic Verse, W.H.D. Rouse. Thorough and somewhat terrifying, but much to be learned here. A few pages in the scan are blurry.
I cannot see what you post in Google Books, Annis.
If someone is interested, there are available the discourses of Dion Chrysostom at Google Books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=YhYtAAAAMAAJ&dq=inauthor:dion+inauthor:chrysostom&as_brr=1
Have all of you people who are unable to download or access googlebooks tried going through a US proxy? This one works for me in Australia:
If it doesn’t work for you, there are plenty more here:
Thank you very much. I did not know what was a proxy. Excuse me. 
P.S.: Welcome to Textkit.
The problem with the proxies I tried was that you still can’t download the books; only view them. Can your proxy download, Briggsy?
Ingrid
Thanks a hell lot!
This proxy works even to downloading! I’m in Korea.
I’ve just downloaded "Treatise on Conic Sections" by Apollonius of Perga, translated by T. L. Heath., the book I searched for desperately for years.
(edit)
I’d welcome free Greek and Arabic version of this book. But although this is an English translation, it contains short greek quotes, which suits my level for practices.
I have used this one to download:
http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/
Thanks a lot! That works!
Ingrid