Jeb Bush has released a huge volume of emails from when he served as governor of Florida, which appear to have been selected to show the Republican presidential candidate in a positive light and omits a significant portion of the record.

The release of emails came at the same time as the first chapter of an e-book that talks about how Bush was obsessed with emailing, and his aides described it as a project to make his personal communications more widely available, according to an Associated Press report.

It also earned him some criticism, as many of the emails include personal details like email addresses and even Social Security numbers — although the Bush camp pledged to remove that information.

Under Florida law, all emails sent to and from Bush’s personal email address while he was governor from 1999 to 2007 are open to public review.

The emails posted to a website on Tuesday are just a small portion of hte material on file, and don’t include emails from his government email address. But the release of the emails to the public allows Bush to get out ahead of their release and shape the message from them. He is likely to try to use them to paint himself as someone who is in touch with his constituents, which Democrats and GOP primary opponents are likely to attack about him.

Bush wrote in the book chapter that he nearly always had his Blackberry on him during his time as governor, spending about 30 hours per week on email between staff and residents of the state. He claims he gave his personal email address to residents often.