There's been some discussion at the Archive of ways to make Open
Library a bit more usable to folks who want to use it for book reading
and borrowing. One of the ideas was to make the site search default to
ebooks instead of records (i.e. having the ebooks box checked by
default which is not how
I think that's a great idea even though I primarily use the site for
research purposes. It should increase use of the collection as well.
On Saturday, November 2, 2013, jessamyn c. west wrote:
There's been some discussion at the Archive of ways to make Open
Library a bit more usable to folks
Jessamyn -
Actually, that was done once a while back, and didn't work because there
was no way to turn it off. So all you could get were the ebooks records,
none of the others. (Every time you hit search it turned it back on,
even if you'd just unchecked the box.) Clearly, it has to be done a
