On 2/2/2011 12:54 PM, raj kumar wrote:
> I guess it is worth clarifying what is a "book", so we are on the same page..
>
> Currently, OL catalogs monographs.. Some IA scans with marc records, such as 
> serials and journals, don't make it to OL yet...

Right, good point. Yeah, just considering monographs. I'm curious how 
many monograph full text items might be in IA but not OL.  And I got 
some answer, user-uploaded and millionbooks aren't in OL. (Probably 
Gutenberg are also not in OL?).   IA-scanned and Google-scanned are in OL.

Hmm, maybe I'm better off just sticking with the hacky but mostly kind 
of working solution I have now against IA directly.

I'd like to use the OL Books api instead, yes, because of the added 
features it offers, including lookup by identifiers like ISBN, and more 
clear response as to what versions of full text may be available. 
(Thanks for that!). But if I do that, I trade off having access to a 
smaller corpus of full text. Hmm.

> -raj
>
>
> On Feb 1, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote:
>
>>> I'm new to this list. I have a question about Internet Archive books. Is
>>> every Internet Archive book represented in the Open Library, or is it
>>> only some of them?
>> As of now every IA book that has a marc record gets into Open Library.
>>
>> Anand
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