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Open Library is a non-profit, open source catalog of every book published, run by the Internet Archive. We help patrons across the globe access millions of digital library books for free.
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We're happy to be on @bsky.app!

Allow us to introduce ourselves: we're OpenLibrary.org, the world's non-profit, open-source book catalog run by @archive.org + community.

(You might know us from x.com/openlibrary)

Let's build an equitable, open library together for the world's readers ❤️📚
Please let us know how we may be helpful. Our shared goal is to promote readership for all.
The entire @openlibrary.org team would like to express our deep sadness at the loss of our friend Greg Newby who, for years, has seeded @gutenberg.org with public good, open access values worth continuing to follow. Thank you for your beautiful contributions. You are missed.
Help us celebrate the efforts of Open Library’s global contributors at this year’s Community Celebration. tinyurl.com/5dayhctr
Save the Date: 2025 Open Library Community Celebration  | The Open Library Blog
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Here’s how our lean-but-mighty team is improving search to handle heavy demand while adding new search features. tinyurl.com/7kprmueu
Open Library Search: Balancing High-Impact with High-Demand | The Open Library Blog
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Hi Bailey, have you tried using Open Library's API?

If you go to your Already Read page, you can add ".json" to get the results. e.g.
openlibrary.org/people/mekBo...
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The new trending books algorithm surfaces books with a spike in activity hour by hour, so you can discover the books that are getting interest right now. tinyurl.com/mv9ute7w
What’s Trending on Open Library? | The Open Library Blog
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Now, borrowable K-12 books within the Open Library catalog are searchable by reading level. tinyurl.com/bdu3tcuu
Now, patrons with qualifying print disabilities can apply for special access when they register on Open Library.
Simplifying Special Access Enrollment for Patrons with Qualifying Print Disabilities | The Open Library Blog
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Welcome to @ronibhakta.bsky.social and Sandy Chu, who were selected from a competitive field of applicants to work with Open Library for Google Summer of Code 2025. Stay tuned for micro-updates about their progress throughout the summer.
OpenLibrary.org may be temporarily offline today for the next ten minutes as we grow and resize our database servers. 🌱

You may still use Archive.org while you're waiting!
Tell us: Which of these features would you be most excited to see on openlibrary.org?
1. Community Tags (like Archive of Our Own)
2. The ability to nominate Best Books on any topic
3. Following other readers
4. On-the-fly book translations
5. Better collections
6. Other?
Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
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Now millions of books will appear with preview links on Open Library search results!
Drini (@cdrini.bsky.social), also staff engineer on Open Library, developed a Table of Contents extraction pipeline using AI that automatically...

* Identifies books containing TOCs
* Extracts TOC pages as structured text
* Imports book TOCs into Open Library
* And soon will make them searchable!
This year, staff engineer Jim Champ helped us design github Project Management Automation workflows to ping our team on slack, so we can respond as soon as there are new comments or contributions from the community!

Here's the code
github.com/internetarch...
🧵 A few highlights from @openlibrary.org's 2024 Board Presentation
We're happy to be on @bsky.app!

Allow us to introduce ourselves: we're OpenLibrary.org, the world's non-profit, open-source book catalog run by @archive.org + community.

(You might know us from x.com/openlibrary)

Let's build an equitable, open library together for the world's readers ❤️📚