appreciate suggestions on how to access this data with the least amount
of pain. I'm a complete neophyte at the OL ecosystem, alas.
Thanks,
Jon Leech
oddh...@sonic.net
P.S. I also noticed that the out-of-date MARC database mentioned above
appears to include a number of indicators which
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:03:51PM -0500, Tom Morris wrote:
As far as I know, the MARC dump was a one-time thing. For a task like
this, no web app programming should be required since the best source of
info is probably full OpenLibrary dump.
Thanks, Tom! That's a good starting point. I'm
I did the exercise of mapping my personal fiction library onto OL
which resulted in about 90 books that aren't (AFAICT) in the database.
I'd be happy to donate them for scanning iff I could be confident they
would in fact be scanned, and the ebooks made available for lending. But
I'm unsure of
AIUI, author merges using the Magic Merge Wand were supported
sometime in the past, but now are restricted to OL staff. I came up with
a few dozen of these while processing my library, a fair number of which
I reported and are getting processed, but it got tiresome after a while
and seemed
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:40:11PM -0400, Christine Rout wrote:
I have seen it a lot. It tends to be the first page of every chapter, in my
experience, not just at the beginning of the book. If there were something
to be done to fix it, I would love to help. It is a very frustrating
At first I thought I'd just found one or two books where this
happened, but I've run into it often enough that I now think there's a
systematic problem where epub versions of many books are completely
missing the first page or two of the text. For example:
The FAQ
https://openlibrary.org/help/faq/troubleshooting#badscan
says For items with major errors, please let us know via the Contact
Form which you can access by clicking the Problem? flag at the bottom
of the item's page. However,
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 01:48:14PM -0500, jessamyn c. west wrote:
> Generally that's what it means.
>
> Usually when there are multiple editions of the exact same item that
> exist, one is more complete than the other. Merging them by hand means
> moving over the information from the less-complete
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 07:58:01PM -0700, Karen Coyle wrote:
> The book scanning operation is separate from Open Library, although access
> to the scanned books ends up in OL. You should probably contact Alexis
> Rossi, who, I believe, is now managing the scanning and lending project.
>
