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> it frankly disgusts me that the project's current management has for the last few years had its focus on fighting windmills in court instead of their core mission - preserving ou…

Thank you for posting @mdp2021 -- Mek here, program lead for OpenLibrary.org at the Internet Archive. Over the last several months, readers have felt the devastating impact of more…

Mek here, program lead for OpenLibrary.org at the Internet Archive with important updates and a way for library lovers to help protect an Internet that champions library values. Ov…

very helpful, thank you. Good to learn international use case is working okay for you (I know we can improve). If you're not on our slack already, feel free to email me @ -- you're…

That's awesome. May I ask, for pre-ISBN books, do you typically look up books by title? What do you do with books when you find them? What is your primary use case / reason? Is it …

Hi, can I ask what books were missing? The more examples we have, the more we can update our bots to make sure these books get either imported or fixed within our search engine. I …

I disagree that having a popular flagship federated service negates decentralization. The point of decentralization is not to destroy the ability to centralize (see e.g. git versus…

Mek here from Open Library, thanks for your kind words. Here! Check our @cdrini's https://openlibrary.org/barcodescanner

Hi, Mek here from Open Library. I was incredibly lucky to work at the Internet Archive the same time as Mouse and couldn't be more proud of their work on BookWyrm. Open Library and…

Am curious what languages are supported

Great idea, using AI to Pimsleur-ize anything.

Readium LCP will be an alternative to adobe ADE.

Internet Archive is implementing readium LCP which is an open drm standard with many competing readers like Thorium. No adobe ID required.

Thank you Ray! https://openlibrary.org/volunteer We have community calls ever Tuesday @ 9am PT and design calls 9am PT Friday! We're currently talking about 2023 planning and every…

By buying their books! The books on internet archive have been purchased by or donated to the library, the same way all libraries work across the US. Books are lent using the same …

How can we improve the reading experience? Have you tried the Open Library Reader app? Looking forward to your advice! Thank you! - mek + open library

Mek here with the Open Library team. In the past two years we've imported about 8 million modern books, including options to import your Goodreads books. The community has merged 2…

this is great work -- if you y'all need more book data (or non-google data) or have any interest in featuring free borrow links to titles which are digitally available from the Int…

mek here from Open Library -- not sure what data booqsi is using but we're very happy to share our catalog's data publicly and freely with the world https://openlibrary.org/develop…

I think many people in these comments are bound to talk past each other when the real answer is: Yes, Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme (by virtue of people making it so), but that does no…

This is great! Thank you for the interest! We've had a rudimentary bot system for the past 10 years or so. Let's please talk if you where others would like to get set up with a bot…

Yes! Here's the issue: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/5022 Sorry about that, on the docket for this upcoming week. We're currently staffed by two eng (myself…

Mek here from internet archive's OpenLibrary.org. Open Library was started by @aaronsw. We're a library catalog with 3M+ books to read & borrow. We've been around for 15 years, not…