Open Library

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Does anyone else here use Open Library?

https://openlibrary.org/

One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty but achievable goal.

To build Open Library, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time and effort to building the site.

To date, we have gathered over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way.

Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your contribution. Whether you fix a typo, add a book, or write a widget--it's all welcome. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do it alone!

Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and has been funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation.

There's no social aspect to this site - it's a cross between an ebook borrowing library and GR: no reviews, etc but the goal of having a complete database.

I've been adding and/or updating books as I run across them - I love the idea of doing the work of creating an online library.

[Beth]

I used to use OpenLibrary, but I rarely found books to download that I'd want to read. Plus most of the books that I found were also on Overdrive, so I downloaded them there instead.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

I don't use it for downloads, I just add books to the catalog.