Hi Roger, No short-term plans to add magazines to OL. Have to think through cataloging serials and adding different Types of materials (magazine, CD, video etc).
Cheers, george On 3/18/11 7:30 PM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote: > Without looking for it right now, I seem to remember reading something on > the OL web site that Open Library has everything that Project Gutenberg > does -- and in accessible ebook format too. For that reason I have virtually > given up using Project Gutenberg. After all, if Open Library has everything > they have then why bother with both sites. This evening, though, I happened > to think of the fact that I have downloaded some public domain magazines > from Gutenberg in the past and I wondered if they were in the OL catalog. I > did a couple of searches and they are not. I suppose I shouldn't be > surprised. After all, magazines are not generally regarded as books. > However, it occurs to me that it would be a really good idea to have an > OpenLibrary for magazines, especially accessible magazines for the print > impaired. Public domain magazines would be easy enough to collect since they > exist already on the Gutenberg site. Are there any plans for or discussions > about this idea? > > > _ _ _ > > "There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in > heaven." - Robert Ingersoll > > Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rogerbailey81 > > > The Militant: > http://www.themilitant.com > Pathfinder Press: > http://www.pathfinderpress.com > Granma International: > http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
