<bump> Using the legacy JSON API I can get all of the followng. Will 
this be true for the modified Books API?

[OL_BOOK_KEY]   Unique key used by Open Library to identify a book
[OL_COVER_SMALL]        Url of small-sized cover image
[OL_COVER_MEDIUM]       Url of medium-sized cover image
[OL_COVER_LARGE]        Url of large-sized cover image
[OL_TITLEPREFIX]        Title prefix
[OL_TITLE]      Title
[OL_SUBTITLE]   Subtitle
[OL_AUTHORLIST]         List of authors
[OL_AUTHORFIRST]        First author
[OL_BYSTATEMENT]        By statement
[OL_CONTRIBUTIONLIST]   List of contributors
[OL_SERIESLIST]         List of series
[OL_SERIESFIRST]        First series
[OL_EDITION]    Edition
[OL_PUBLISHERLIST]      List of publishers
[OL_PUBLISHERFIRST]     First publisher
[OL_PUBLISHPLACELIST]   List of publish places
[OL_PUBLISHPLACEFIRST]  First publish place
[OL_PUBLISHDATE]        Publish date
[OL_COPYRIGHTDATE]      Copyright date
[OL_PAGINATION]         Pagination
[OL_SIZE]       Size
[OL_PAGES]      Pages
[OL_FORMAT]     Format
[OL_WEIGHT]     Weight
[OL_ISBN13LIST]         List of 13 digit ISBNs
[OL_ISBN13FIRST]        First 13 digit ISBN
[OL_ISBN10LIST]         List of 10 digit ISBNs
[OL_ISBN10FIRST]        First 10 digit ISBN
[OL_ISBN]       13 digit ISBN if available, else 10 digit ISBN, else blank
[OL_SUBJECTLIST]        List of subjects
[OL_GENRELIST]  List of genres
[OL_URILIST]    List of uris
[OL_PURCHASEURLLIST]    List of purchase urls
[OL_DOWNLOADURLLIST]    List of download urls
[OL_DESCRIPTION]        Description
[OL_FIRSTSENTENCE]      First sentence
[OL_NOTES]      Notes





John Miedema wrote:
> Hi Anand and Open Library folks.
>
> I recently discussed with Anand that I am writing the next version of 
> OpenBook and want to upgrade to the most appropriate Open Library APIs.
>
> Anand, you recommended that I use the Books API, a client-side method 
> using JavaScript. I indicated that I wanted to use a server-side method 
> so that the HTML is discoverable by search crawlers. You offered to make 
> a server-side version of the Books API. That sounds good. However, as I 
> look at the Books API documentation, I see that the details section 
> contains only a subset of the available data. OpenBook currently allows 
> users to display many data elements from Open Library that are missing 
> from the Books API details.
>
> Question 1. Will you be adding all data elements to details section of 
> the Books API? Maybe some are not "stable" enough for the API details. 
> If so, which ones?
>
> Question 2. Also, if I should be using the Books API, why does your 
> documentation say that the RESTful is best for linking to Open Library?
>
> Thanks, John
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