Bookfinder VS Open Library

Bookfinder Reviews

Open Library Reviews

Bookfinder mentions (89)

• Does anyone have any tools for tracking down hard to find books?

  My first stop is always bookfinder. Doesn't cross-reference every site but it does a good chunk of them. Source: 11 months ago

• Ideas for a 7 day celebration for my S.O.'s birthday?

  If an era (say civil war) go to http://bookfinder.com. Now on the front page click Advanced Search. You can select year of publication. So for civil war I would plug in up to 1900. Source: 11 months ago

• Where do you find out what a book you’re repurposing is worth?

  First you need to learn to grade the book, as value is related directly to condition. Then you can look the book up on bookfinder.com and see what it's worth. But... there's a caveat. There's lots of "script sellers" out there, sellers that don't actually own the book - but which scrape the data, markup the price and offer it for sale, planning to buy it when you do. There's also many utter idiots who will... Source: 11 months ago

• I’m applying to SJSU for Fall 2024 and I have no idea how I’m going to live out there

  If you NEED to purchase a book, use bookfinder.com to find the cheapest books. Always verify the ISBN to make sure you get the correct one edition. Source: 12 months ago

• Best Place For Textbooks

  You should also check bookfinder.com. Source: 12 months ago

Open Library mentions (263)

• MLIS books available digitally?

  Check out https://openlibrary.org. You can search ´library science’, librarian’, etc, and something should come up. Just select the ‘ebooks’ option to search for items within the collection. And you can narrow the search by subject, etc. Source: 5 months ago

• NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month

  Right now I'm in the middle of the chicken and the egg problem where we don't have enough authors cataloging their publications and b/c of that obviously readers are not interested in using the site. I've gone back and forth with taking Open Libray's [0] catalog as that would at least flesh out our collection of books but then I'd have to deal with verifying authors to accounts so they can access their books.... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• is there any way to read books for free?

  Here's one: https://openlibrary.org/. Source: 6 months ago

• YSK: You can access many old and out of print hiking books from the Internet Archive's Open Library

  The Internet Archive runs what they call the Open Library, which is a unique concept on the traditional library. You can sign-up with minimal details and digitally check out many scanned books from libraries all over the world. The only caveat is that almost all of the books are older editions - ones that would be impossible to find locally. It's great if you're looking for old routes, a look back in time, details... Source: 7 months ago

• Searching for a pharmacy book

  I want to clarify that I'm a non-US citizen, so accessing physical copies from US libraries or buying it from Amazon might not be feasible for me. To give you some context, my personal research was guided by the wiki section of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH (https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/wiki/reading/). I've conducted research using various online resources, including the Ebook & Open Source/Access Libraries... Source: 8 months ago