I use the full text search all the time.

It often times out, and the search appears to insert an OR between each
search term, resulting in thousands of results.

But I've been able to use it to find material in the collection I would
otherwise have missed.

It would be great if this resource could be improved. My scanning project
is up to 1,300 volumes and searching within individual books doesn't scale
beyond a dozen books at a time.


David Pierce
Media History Digital Library
www.mediahistoryproject.org


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Mark Klarer <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi list,
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>  What are the interfaces to full text search? I have looked around and I
> only see this one:
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> http://openlibrary.org/search/inside
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> I found the page parameter works like:
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> http://openlibrary.org/search/inside?q=%22black+hole%22&page=2
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> Are there any other parameters besides page? For example ebooks and a
> limit would be nice like:
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> http://openlibrary.org/search/inside?q=%22black+hole%22&page=1&limit=50&has_fulltext=true
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> Would be nice if there were a RESTful interface, with combinations of the
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> If not then maybe put this on the bottom of the user wish list. Not a huge
> deal. Just wanted to add some more bells and whistles to my own project.
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