If a BookReader edition is available, you can read it instantly online by clicking the "Read in Browser" link. You're done!Borrowing books in other formats will requireAdobe Digital Editions or ebook software that works with Adobe authentication. You can read this FAQ entry for information on other ebook software.An Adobe.com account which you can get
I must misunderstand something then. Is it not a choice between browser and adobe id?
By buying their books! The books on internet archive have been purchased by or donated to the library, the same way all libraries work across the US. Books are lent using the same 1:1 owned to loaned ratios. Open library is a catalog and publicizes info about authors and promotes their works, irrespective of whether or not lendable titles are available.
Mek here with the Open Library team. In the past two years we've imported about 8 million modern books, including options to import your Goodreads books.
The community has merged 25,000 duplicate works and cleaned data for another 200k+
We also have a massive search improvement (exact edition search) slated to launch this month which is already on testing.openlibrary.org
If you decide to give it another try please let us know what you think and where we should focus our efforts to improve the experience for you!
this is great work -- if you y'all need more book data (or non-google data) or have any interest in featuring free borrow links to titles which are digitally available from the Internet Archive's digital library, let me know and I'm happy to help.
I think many people in these comments are bound to talk past each other when the real answer is:
Yes, Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme (by virtue of people making it so), but that does not, nor should it, imply that the only thing Bitcoin is, is a Ponzi scheme.
It's part of the ethos but does not describe the whole ethos, and trivializing Bitcoin to a Ponzi scheme is the wrong answer. As, honestly, is trying to defend that Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme.
Irrespective of how value is in practice (or volume) making its way through the system is different from the system itself.
There are several promising elements of Bitcoin which contribute to its value. One is sheer access and connectedness (e.g. Metcalfe's law). People use facebook (its valuation reflects this) or pay for a phone plan because connecting to the Internet is a synecdoche for ubiquitous access. Creating a fabric where people in any country may work for a company, irrespective of its location, is a paradigm shift from what we had previously. Today, working for a US company from Taiwan is a legitimate challenge & deterrent.
There are many such examples, where transparent ledgers for instance may increase trust between parties and give people more confidence in financial robustness. All of these things have intrinsic value, just as the architecture which is PageRank has value for Google.
A common mistake I hear is for people to point to these advantages as if to suggest that it is without flaws or incapable of flaws, when we -- the people using the system -- are quite fallible and driven by prisoner's dilemma-type incentives which may by no means be long-term efficient or equitable (given we're all in the same boat). And I think these social challenges should be noted and not discounted on behalf of "technology being good enough".
Are there any plans where metadata for Internet Archive patrons could be scoped to API tokens or applications (Oauth2), so that external applications could add value for users on top of the Internet Archive corpus?
We've had a rudimentary bot system for the past 10 years or so. Let's please talk if you where others would like to get set up with a bot account and write access!
Sorry about that, on the docket for this upcoming week.
We're currently staffed by two eng (myself included) w/ ~80 open PRs, 500 issues, just finalized a py2 to 3 migration, and reprovisioned all of our servers w/ docker so we're playing catch-up on some newly surfaced issues.
Please do open such issues so we're aware! It's a huge way to help.
The issue mentioned above is happening because our cron jobs got moved from one machine to another.
Allow me to hijack - I'm working on something to make the experience of reading the text-only version of books on OpenLibrary better (if they decide to integrate it when it's done.) Email's in the profile if you want to help out.
Apparently K.A. Applegate is the second most prolific science fiction author. That's amazing and hilarious. I think a bunch of Animorphs were ghost written though.
To my knowledge, every preview includes at minimum the basic front-matter (such as those you describe). There are other mechanisms in place which enable specific controlled use cases e.g. limited page previews for folks coming from Wikipedia citations. I don't know if Open Library is presently taking taking advantage of these enriched previews -- I'll check with our product team to see what improvements to the experience may be possible.
