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by mekarpeles 6y ago
Please see: https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360016554912-Borr... There are multiple options for borrowing, depending on the title, including Adobe Digital Editions for applicable titles.
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
This is the #1 feedback so far (and good feedback) that having a way to jump directly to a number would be appreciated. Will see what we can do! https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/4320
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
You're right, this a big limitation, that the spines are not digitized.
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
This is a great idea. One of the reasons Open Library Explorer is possible is we have a healthy amount of Dewey + Library of Congress classification data for our books. As you notes, Dewey has Literature 8xx. Library Explorer also supports
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
Updated the article to include a shiny "try it here" link at the top based on your feedback, thank you.
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
Hi thanks kindly for the question, we don't currently have Z39.50 or OAI-PMH access, however we do surface content via OPDS: https://ianews.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/open-library-opds @ https:/&#x2F
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
https://openlibrary.org/explore Do try out the "Settings" cog at the bottom of the UI -- one thing that makes this interface so powerful is you can add custom queries to transform the entire library (such as to on
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Introducing the Open Library Explorer(blog.openlibrary.org)
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
Hi markdown, there is a radiobutton on the /search page for only showing `ebooks`. Do you mean this option doesn't work through the search.json API? If so, can you please make sure we have an issue open https://github.c
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
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, an
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
Jabo, I love to see this, more access for the book community -- especially how quickly it came together. Nice work Jabo and excited to see Typesense in action. Open Library gladly & thankfully tweeted its support of your hard work: htt
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/4266 tracking this issue here
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
Thanks kradeelav! The "method not allowed" is happening because this page requires login first. Ideally, it should probably bring you to the login page and (once you login) bring you back to the import page. We'll see about c
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
You might specifically appreciate that every page on Open Library is an API (including search). Just add ".json" e.g. https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q= https://openlibrary.org/books/OL280
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
Thank you buttscicles (hard saying that with a straight face) for OP'ing this thread and to Joe Alcorn for the amazing original article. I haven't shared this yet -- it's more for the community, but I've tried to address
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
This is right. Books pre ~1973 don't have ISBN. And goodreads covers far more material than just modern material. The current Goodreads importer makes a big/unfortunate tradeoff of trying to have something which works for the majo
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
Hi Funes, Great points here 1. The banner happens last month of the year (Wikipedia being the perfect analog). Yes, there are mixed feelings and it's not the world's best experience :P 2. Our entire data set is available to downlo
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
Howdy bloak, Many of our librarian processes & FAQs are detailed here: https://openlibrary.org/librarians Most data on Open Library is publicly editable by members. In this case, author merging is a capability that only
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
Even opening an issue for this would be a massive help: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/new/ch... The importer is a new project (as of August this year) and I think there's a l
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
<3 Also, Open Library has a librarian program. If you use the https://openlibrary.org/volunteer page and click the Librarian link, this will send an email to Lisa, our head community librarian and we can help you access
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
bbkane, this is a great idea (identifying which books didn't import). If you'd be so kind as to help, please open a feature request for this! https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/new
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
Jabo, please also help us @ openlibrary improve our search. @cdrini is the lead on our solr efforts and we could really benefit from teaming with someone who is really passionate about search. If you have questions about using our data, ple
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
Howdy rikroots! Thanks for this kind message, we're really excited about designing a way to help authors claim their pages. It's not a feature our current author pages have yet . As a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, h
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
For anyone who wishes Open Library was even better, please join one of our weekly community calls @ 11:30am Pacific. For an invite, please send me an email at mek@archive.org or go to: https://openlibrary.org/volunteer # AP
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
Also related: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-client/tree/m... https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/wiki/Library-...
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
Many in our community are intimately familiar with and sensitive to the challenges of FRBR (e.g. serials, etc) as it pertains to maintaining a system of Works and Editions. This is an active conversation on our slack. Send me an email and I
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
We have a small network of librarians on a slack channel who have merged more than 10,000 duplicate works. Librarians (which is a permission role) also have the ability to merge Authors, so data improves over time. Furthermore, members of o
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
I think there's a very important distinction to be made between the notion of an alternative and a replacement. I think many of us (in the Open Library community) want to see many players in the space and as much creativity as possible
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
The philosophy behind thebestbook.com (which is currently just a looks-like demo -- you should help us implement it!) follows this essay on Less Wrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-t..
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
Howdy, Mek here -- I run https://openlibrary.org over at the non-profit Internet Archive (the folks that bring you the Wayback Machine). Open Library is an free, online California Library with millions of digital books to read a

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