Another oddity that I saw was that the cover shows twice. Not a clue. - kc

On 4/12/14, 3:37 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
> I don't have any particular insight into this, but one thing I noticed
> is that if you open in the image url, it appears to actually be some
> kind of special preview coming out of the BookReader software.  You can
> even get a full res version of the cover image:
>
> https://ia801800.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderPreview.php?id=javahowtoprogram00deit_608&itemPath=%2F1%2Fitems%2Fjavahowtoprogram00deit_608&server=ia801800.us.archive.org&page=cover.jpg
>
> It would probably be possible to write a bot to clone these cover images
> into a place that the Cover API could access them, but I'm not sure how
> you'd identify them in the first place.  Perhaps it's only DAISY format
> books?
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Galen Charlton <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I see an example of an edition page that displays a cover image:
>
>     https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25392083M/Java
>
>     However, the page for the work does not include a cover image [0], and
>     the Book [1] and cover APIs [2, 3] indicate that no cover is
>     available.
>
>     Is this just some kind of random glitch in the metadata, or are there
>     general circumstances whereby a cover image is available only on the
>     edition page but nowhere else?
>
>     [0] https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16724619W/Java
>     [1]
>     
> https://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:9780132575669&format=json&jscmd=details
>     [2] http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/9780132575669.jpg
>     [3] http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/olid/OL25392083M-M.jpg
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Galen
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