Open Library Reviews and details

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• 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: 6 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: 7 months ago

• AI-generated books create a dumpster fire on Amazon and Goodreads

  There are tons of them available. Here's the Creative Commons Search portal: https://search.creativecommons.org/ I tried Openverse and Europeana. Some of these appear to categorize eBooks as "images", or perhaps they are just promotional images for unfree books. Tens of thousands of results. Here's a Google Books search. I was unable to find a "search for license" type thing, but you can search for "Fully... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Bookwyrm – the federated social network for reading books

  Wow, I just realided Open Library covers like 80% of Goodreads as well: read/to-read lists, ratings, yearly reading goals. Seems like https://openlibrary.org itself would be a find Goodreads alternative if you don't want to set up your own Bookwyrm instance. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI for unlawfully ‘ingesting’ their books

  A relevant case against the Internet archive and Open Library:. Source: 10 months ago

• Where do you people find ebooks there days?

  PDFDrive.com is no longer viable but as others have pointed out, PDFDrive.to and OceanofPDF.com are still active. If I can't find what I'm looking for, I go to the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/inlibrary and https://openlibrary.org/) for downloads. It is possible to download a PDF (instead of 1 hour online loan) and used the procedure shown in... Source: 10 months ago

• Off Grid Digital Survival Library

  I will definitely check out openlibrary.org and manybooks.net. But I want to make sure that I don't "bypass" anything because there are way too many eyes watching way too many things. Source: 10 months ago

• Praise to the Internet Archive it changed my life, resources for healing

  Https://openlibrary.org/ Is the general website. Source: 10 months ago

• Finally got my first Kindle

  I already had a bunch of books stored in my Calibre program but I'm finding a lot of sources online like the Gutenberg Project and others. My library has quite a few books available to take out via Libby but there are other sites to borrow books from also, like https://openlibrary.org/. People I know can also share their personal libraries through their Calibre sharing server and I could easily read for years and... Source: 11 months ago

• finding obscure fire texts

  Thanks! Their "sister" site openlibrary.org gave me a hint to try to find it on world cat, a catalog of every(?) library in the world. found it in a couple libraries that I'm going to try to pursue. Source: 11 months ago

• Children’s book about counting 21 animal guests at Wiggly Pig’s birthday tea. I know the first three passages

  You can read it online at openlibrary.org. Source: 11 months ago

• Proper Datasources for Light Novels via Open Library

  You know Bookwyrm has the ability to import books from other instances and Open Library. Which is a project of the internet archive. They lend Books and have a vast database of Books. Source: 11 months ago

• Are there any good memoirs written by people who have spent time in prison?

  You can use : open library open library to read many books for free. Just make an account. Source: 11 months ago

• hey gamers i was homeschooled by religious parents and got zero math education in lieu of memorizing catechism, was wondering if u had epic resources so i don't keep failing basic algebra

  Also use the internet archive's open library at openlibrary.org !! Source: 11 months ago

• If I couldn't afford books (scientific, religious, historic...etc) BUT ALSO didn't want to illegally obtain them, what would be a good option for me?

  Otherwise you can try to find "online libraries," like the Open Library and the Digital Public Library of America. I'm not sure if they're available to users from all countries, you would have to check and try signing up. Source: 11 months ago

• Desire to Learn.

  An easy reference for finding the qualities of any herbs you want to use is Andrew Chevallier's Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine, which you can borrow an older digital edition at openlibrary.org for free here: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20032174W/Encyclopedia_of_herbal_medicine?edition=key%3A/books/OL27212217M. Source: 11 months ago

• Been homeless for 12 days, starting to lose hope

  It is very important at your young age to know local tenancy laws inside and out where no matter where you may live. Make it your personal homework to help protect your access to shelter or any living space you live in. The above link also gave a link to recommended books. One of them is Every Tenant's Legal Guide. A slightly older edition of the book from 2012 is found at openlibrary.org, but it should be recent... Source: 11 months ago

• You can get New Penguin Russian course book free (legally) online at internet archive )

  p.s. Another similar site is https://openlibrary.org/. Source: 12 months ago