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Open Library Scheduled Downtime 16 Apr 2013 | 06:56 pm
Open Library will be down from during the following time due to a scheduled power outage. Tuesday, April 16 - 7:00AM to 12:00 noon Wednesday, April 17 - 2:00PM to 7:00PM Thank you for your cooperatio...
Rest in peace, Aaron Swartz 12 Jan 2013 | 10:49 pm
Aaron Swartz committed suicide yesterday (Jan 11, 2013). The Open Library wouldn’t exist without him. He wrote the backbone of the system you see today, hired the team that built the first version of ...
Scheduled Downtime (Completed) 5 Aug 2012 | 06:22 am
We’re planning for a scheduled downtime on Sunday, August 5 for migrating our database server to new hardware. Open Library will be unavailable for about 3 hours during 7:00 PM PST – 10:00 PM PST. We...
Reading lending library books on the Nook 10 Dec 2011 | 02:28 pm
Our lending library books now work on the Nook! If you can read online, try the ‘Read In Browser’ link on a borrowable book. This is simplest! Otherwise, you’ll need a computer, with Adobe Digital E...
KohaCon 2011 23 Nov 2011 | 02:42 am
Anand and I attended the Koha Conference in Thane, Mumbai earlier in November and spoke about Open Library. The conference took place from Oct 31 till 2 November. There was a hackfest following the ev...
BookReader Work Sprint at NYPL Labs 5 Oct 2011 | 11:56 am
We had a really fantastic code/work sprint for the BookReader organized by the most excellent NYPL Labs. The sprint was designed to bring together organizations that have an interest in the BookReade...
“We’re Re-Tribalising” 22 Jul 2011 | 11:19 am
“It’s no longer one thing at a time, but everything all at once.” Happy Birthday, Marshall McLuhan. (Via @josettemelchor on Twitter.)
Our Search Engine Was Hurting 13 Jul 2011 | 06:00 am
Sorry to say, but our search engine is all kinds of weird this morning (San Francisco time). Lots of the pages you see around the site, like a Work page or a Subject page, or indeed the Search Results...
The Challenges of Getting to Mars: Landing Day, Nerves and Joy 8 Jul 2011 | 11:23 am
I’ve been spending a bit more time on archive.org lately. Not only exploring the nearly 3 million scanned texts, but also our massive video collection. I uncovered this documentary showing earthlings ...
Heads up! Little confirmation email glitch in play 16 Jun 2011 | 04:56 am
Last week we made some upgrades to the way account management on Open Library works. We’ve been hearing through our contact form that some people have had trouble with their confirmation emails not wo...
