Open Library Reviews

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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: 6 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 / 7 months ago

• is there any way to read books for free?

  Here's one: https://openlibrary.org/. Source: 8 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: 8 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: 9 months ago

Curlie Directory mentions (9)

• A look at search engines with their own indexes

  Ohh I remember Google Directory, good times. They closed it down for good in 2011. Dmoz was also closed, but it seems like there's a "new" Dmoz called Curlie [1], founded by some of the original team members. [1] https://curlie.org. - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

• A nostalgic look back at when the Internet still felt joyful

  Some places where you could search for personal blogs https://nownownow.com/ https://ooh.directory/ https://searchmysite.net/ https://curlie.org/ https://nekoweb.org/ https://blogs.hn/ https://wiby.me/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?: The Criterion Collection

  A start on something like this might already exist. Curlie [1] is a hand-built directory or table of contents to the web, something like the the old DMOZ Open Directory Project [2]. 1. https://curlie.org/ 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Kagi Smallweb [a directory of small/personal websites]

  I've started making a list of "small web" sites https://wiby.me/surprise/ https://ooh.directory/random/ https://ooh.directory/ https://curlie.org/ and now this one too! - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking

  > It was pre-social-media and pre-wiki, so none of these directories were optimized to take advantage of crowdsourcing. False. Google Directory (and many other major name, mostly now defunct, web directories) used DMOZ which was, in fact, crowdsourced (and kind of still is, though the current name is Curlie [0] and while some parts of the website show updated as recently as today, enough fairly core links are dead... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago