If you don't trust Open Library you might consider Bookshare: https://www.bookshare.org/cms
On 3/31/2016 7:44 PM, Jon Leech wrote:
I asked this about a year ago and never got a reply (which in a sense answers my question), but will try again: I've got about 850 old paperbacks that do not have loanable ebooks in OL, though they do have records - seehttps://openlibrary.org/people/oddhack/lists/OL67687L/(Not_Loanable)_Books_In_Library I'd be thrilled to donate most of them IF I were completely confident that they would actually be scanned and offered up for loan in a reasonably short time, but at this point in time OL appears so dramatically under-resourced and unresponsive to its users that I have no such confidence. There's the "Book Drive" page, but that hasn't been updated, aside from tweaking some of the text / contact info, in 6 years, and offers no indication of its current status. So I'm skeptical of "The IA scans over 1,000 books every day" assertion on that page. Is there reason to think donating books to IA will produce loanable ebooks in OL as a result? I'm not trying to be snarky here, it's a serious question based on how stagnant OL is, and how much work would be involved in my bringing 30 boxes of books to San Francisco from the East Bay. Jon _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
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