Mek here w/ openlibrary @rayrag, there are researchers, vendors, libraries, partners like wikipedia, authors, and hundreds of thousands of people who use Open

Mek here w/ openlibrary @rayrag, there are researchers, vendors, libraries, partners like wikipedia, authors, and hundreds of thousands of people who use Open Library to track when they're reading, to promote books and reading, and to create curated lists. Also, organizations like Internet Archive use such catalogs to manage what books to acquire (based on interest/demand from the community). Having a home for bookcovers, citations, quotes, ISBNs, publishers, years, subjects, related editions are all valuable even if the book (source) is not yet available. Hope this helps!