Library Cataloging
I'd be interested in getting info about a good source for book covers. I've tried LibraryThing. It was simple but the hit rate for covers, for our collection, was about 1%. How about Google Books, or Open Library? Any legal problems with use? I know Amazon just changed the use agreement to make it much less open.
I'd like to see an example of the HTML link for any you use and recommend.
- Coins In Wordpress
The OpenBook Book Data plug-in for WordPress by John Miedema now supports COinS.OpenBook is for book reviewers, book bloggers, library webmasters, anyone who wants to put book covers and data on their WordPress blog or website.OpenBook gets its covers...
- Free Covers From Librarything
LibraryThing is making nearly one million book covers available for free. It is pretty simple coding to grab them. Thanks Tim et al.Update 12 Aug. 2008 I just added 37 links to covers from a page and none of the items had covers in LibraryThing. One million...
- Librarything's Isbn Feed.
LibraryThing has created a feed of the ISBNs in their system. Now you can compare your holdings to theirs. Since there is talk of LibraryThing making available book covers and tags this would be a good first step, check to see just how much match there...
- 2nd Life For Old Books
A very good idea in the latest issue of PNLA Quarterly recovering books. Books with old, worn covers have lower circulation that bright shiny new covers. Someone at Boulder City High School had the good idea of printing out new covers for books rather...
- Library Thing
An interesting personal cataloging site is, Library Thing. It allows a person to enter 200 books for free or an unlimited number for 10.00. It get the cataloging information from the Library of Congress or allows the user to manually input the data. Then...
Library Cataloging
Book Covers
I'd be interested in getting info about a good source for book covers. I've tried LibraryThing. It was simple but the hit rate for covers, for our collection, was about 1%. How about Google Books, or Open Library? Any legal problems with use? I know Amazon just changed the use agreement to make it much less open.
I'd like to see an example of the HTML link for any you use and recommend.
- Coins In Wordpress
The OpenBook Book Data plug-in for WordPress by John Miedema now supports COinS.OpenBook is for book reviewers, book bloggers, library webmasters, anyone who wants to put book covers and data on their WordPress blog or website.OpenBook gets its covers...
- Free Covers From Librarything
LibraryThing is making nearly one million book covers available for free. It is pretty simple coding to grab them. Thanks Tim et al.Update 12 Aug. 2008 I just added 37 links to covers from a page and none of the items had covers in LibraryThing. One million...
- Librarything's Isbn Feed.
LibraryThing has created a feed of the ISBNs in their system. Now you can compare your holdings to theirs. Since there is talk of LibraryThing making available book covers and tags this would be a good first step, check to see just how much match there...
- 2nd Life For Old Books
A very good idea in the latest issue of PNLA Quarterly recovering books. Books with old, worn covers have lower circulation that bright shiny new covers. Someone at Boulder City High School had the good idea of printing out new covers for books rather...
- Library Thing
An interesting personal cataloging site is, Library Thing. It allows a person to enter 200 books for free or an unlimited number for 10.00. It get the cataloging information from the Library of Congress or allows the user to manually input the data. Then...