Thanks for the followups. Some more information:

Thanks for the good suggestion about musical notations -- in fact, I had the same idea just yesterday! I've started to use the Google Bookshelf Notes feature to attach a brief description to each book, indicating the year of publication, language(s), whether musical notation is included, and, if there's room, some indication of whether the book is of specialist or general interest.

Maybe I should have emphasized in my original post that one reason I hope my Book Shelf will be useful is that it will include only Full Preview books -- i.e., those for which the entire book is available on line (as opposed to partial preview or snippet view.) The great majority of these are in the form of downloadable pdfs (and I find them a lot easier to read if I download them to a computer and use Adobe Reader -- on line page loading tends to be slow.)

It seems that apparently you can put books on multiple shelves, meaning that it should be easy to set up some sub-groups, like "Folk Music Celtic."

I'm going to try to assemble a comprehensive shelf of full preview books in these areas, but if I collect too many, I may have to start being more selective.

For the present, I'm focusing on Celtic, British, and Greek folk music. I'm not sure if I'll branch off into other types.

I may also make public a more selective Book Shelf of full preview books on Greek, Celtic, and British folklore.

I'll only occasionally report the development of these Book Shelves here, but I encourage people who are interested to check them periodically -- there will be frequent additions.

For convenience, here is the link again. It should be publicly available. If there are any problems with it, please let me know.


Jon Corelis
Songs by William Blake