http://www.hathitrust.org

Most Google-digitized scans in Hathitrust are also available in Google, but a lot of European publications published after 1909 and before 1923 isn't in Google as fulltext while HathiTrust is offering access for US-citizen. There are also books before 1909 which are not in Google e.g.

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433066646872

You can browse these books from outside the US by using an US proxy. (PDF-Download is limited to one page for not-affiliates of a HathiTrust partner institution.)

1. First choose a proxy

See e.g. the list at

http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Gbs#Liste_aktueller_Web-Anonymizer

2. Go to the proxy URL

E.g. http://uethelp.us/

3. Enter the HatiTrust URL

4. Read!

See the screencast http://screenr.com/Uxt

or at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc5_QE1Gi_I