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 > -- > Galen Charlton > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] >
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