Meet Engineering Fellow Ben Deitch, and learn how his contributions have improved the Open Library experience for readers around the world. tinyurl.com/j44mnjt8
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Meet Engineering Fellow Ben Deitch, and learn how his contributions have improved the Open Library experience for readers around the world. tinyurl.com/j44mnjt8
This #WorldWildlifeDay, mark this year’s theme by exploring books on medicinal and aromatic plants in Open Library. tinyurl.com/yc4e787a
On this Future Knowledge podcast, author Edward Wilson-Lee talks about the true story behind "The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books."
The book chronicles the adventures of Hernando Colón, who sailed with his father Christopher Columbus before setting out to build a library of everything ever printed.
Celebrate linguistic diversity by browsing multilingual books in Open Library’s digital archive. tinyurl.com/bdj24acn
No superstition required this Friday the 13th–just a good book.
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Register to attend @archive.org's next live podcast recording and #booktalk, featuring “Searches” author Vauhini Vara and cohost Luca Messarra. #books #booksky
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Register to attend @archive.org's next book talk, AI Tools, Not Gods, with Caroline De Cock and Glyn Moody. #books #booksky tinyurl.com/4sj5sa5d
Thank you Terence! This is an area where we're planning improvements to make imports more accessible to the community. Those docs are useful for architecture.
This may help on the bot-side of things :)
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Hi JP! Sorry to be late to the conversation. @mek.fyi here from the Open Library team.
We have an client for using the API to fix metadata:
github.com/internetarch...
If you send me an email to mek@archive.org we can invite you to slack and help!
Shine a light on the achievements of women athletes on #NGWSD2026. Find your next great read on women in sports in Open Library: tinyurl.com/44r59y4m
Header consisting of Nancy Drew book covers with the text "Explore the Nancy Drew collection."
Tracking down editions, series, and metadata took real sleuthing by the volunteer librarians who built the Nancy Drew collection on Open Library. tinyurl.com/332pk76s
Image of a few series in the new Nancy Drew Collection on Open Library. Shows carousel selections from Nancy Drew on Campus and Nancy Drew Girl Detective.
Volunteer librarians curated and organized eight Nancy Drew series into a collection to make the books easier to discover on Open Library. tinyurl.com/332pk76s
Today is Library Shelfie day. You can use this cool beta tool by @lokeshdhakar.com to create and share a shelfie of your read books in Open Library. quietvolumes.com #LibraryShelfie
Go deeper into ideas in the podcast, and read Walled Culture on Open Library. tinyurl.com/ycxxxt25
@archive.org is holding a virtual #PublicDomainDay celebration on Jan. 21. RSVP to join the event.
Happy to see you referencing books from Open Library's catalog, @bobgorman8791.bsky.social!
We thought you may be happy that your use case is being explored by the team to enable readers and researchers like yourself to more easily share select annotations.
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As we end the year, we’re celebrating the work of the fellows, volunteers, and staff who made Open Library better in 2025. tinyurl.com/3x6pmr2y
At the non-profit Open Library, we put delivering value over vanity metrics. This month we achieved a drop in registrations, and here’s why we’re celebrating:
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The Internet Archive Ops Team is addressing a hardware issue with a network switch that resulted from an unplanned upstream power outage. Data is safe, openlibrary.org will have intermittent access as equipment is cycled. Thank you for your patience.
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
Here’s how our lean-but-mighty team is improving search to handle heavy demand while adding new search features. tinyurl.com/7kprmueu
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.
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Here’s how to see what books are trending now on Open Library. tinyurl.com/mv9ute7w
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
Screenshot of the Pre-K & Kindergarten and Grade 1 reading levels on Open Library.
Now, borrowable K-12 books within the Open Library catalog are searchable by reading level. tinyurl.com/bdu3tcuu
Know of a new web book that should be added to our catalog? Tell us about it here.
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