Internet Archive: nejen paměť internetu

https://pepikhipik.com/2026/05/10/internet-archive-nejen-pamet-internetu/

Question to my fellow readers: I would love to use the Internet Archive free library for borrowing books, but reading them in a browser is impossible on an eReader. I cannot find any options for downloading, like it works with Libby or Onleihe. Apparently that's supposed to work. Maybe the books I tested where not available for downloading? But how do I find downloadable ebooks? Am I missing a filter or button or something?

#internetarchive #openlibrary #readingcommunity #borrowingbooks

Impulse aus der Praxis! 🩵
Digitale Partizipation leicht gemacht!
Zugänglichkeit + Relevanz steigern.

Erfahrt auf der #BiblioCon26 wie eine „Bibliothek der (digitalen) Dinge“, #OpenLibrary oder eine #BibliotheksApp neue Potenziale für Bibliothek und Stadtgesellschaft eröffnen.
Keynotes von Jasmin Leuze (Bibliothek Zug) und Marianne Knechtl (GGG Stadtbibliothek Basel)

📍 #Freiraum26
📆 Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2026
🕐 13:00 – 13:30 Uhr

Mehr Infos am Stand C19.
https://shorturl.at/cqGfY
@bibliocon

Ever since my PhD contract has ended last month, I have been going through my personal project backlog, including this very Mastodon account and actually making progress on my personal website.

Yesterday, I was thinking what to do about my Goodreads account when I discovered @bookwyrm and by proxy @OpenLibrary and @inventaire ! Obviously, I am now on bookwyrm.social.

Because my Goodreads shelves are a mess, many of my books can't be imported automatically, including some japanese light novels and web serials. The latter, I've never really bothered to track outside of dedicated websites (novelupdates, ao3, fanfiction.net) because of how difficult it is.

Big question for people in the know and #librarians, is there a database of web serials or am I doomed to add my books manually (or programmatically)?

#bookwyrm #openlibrary #inventaireio #askfedi

Open Library volunteers like Nazar Kotsur 👨‍💻 work behind the scenes every day.

From tracking Ukrainian books that aren’t yet online to improving access via Wikisource, his work keeps culture from disappearing.

Learn more 👇 https://blog.openlibrary.org/2026/03/24/featuring-nazar-kotsur-tracking-ukrainian-books-missing-from-the-digital-commons/

#DigitalPreservation #OpenLibrary #BooksForAll

I might have said this earlier but worth repeating. DuckDB is freaking amazing! Today I worked on a 56G TSV file containing 55 million rows of JSON serialized documents (all of OpenLibrary editions).

I can query this file including filtering on nested JSON structures and most queries complete in a few dozen seconds worst case, but I can also create derived indexes to bring down query times to milliseconds.

All in memory on an M1 Mac with 64GB RAM.

#DuckDB #OpenLibrary #BigData

current books flow:
book ➡️ track on #LibraryThing

future maybe:
book ➡️ update data on #OpenLibrary ➡️ import book OL data into #BookWyrm ➡️ track on BookWyrm

why:
- simpler tracking site with less features seems less stressful. read more, online less (BW)
- supports open source projects (BW, OL)
- public data helps everyone (OL)

why I haven't switched yet:
- love LibraryThing's features: full edition control, stats, recs, data, etc.

plan: try the new flow for a while, then decide... 

Kulturbeigeordneter Silvio Horn: „Mit der schrittweisen Einführung der #OpenLibrary gehen wir einen wichtigen Weg, unsere Stadtbibliothek weiter #zukunftsfähig zu machen. Lesen, Lernen und Austausch sollen nicht an Servicezeiten gebunden sein. So schaffen wir mehr #Flexibilität und machen die Bibliothek für unsere Bürgerinnen und Bürger noch zugänglicher und moderner.“

Ein großartiges Projekt mit visionärer Strahlkraft und für uns ein ganz besonderes Herzensprojekt.🥰

https://rb.gy/trcoqm

Question for #Bookstodon ....

I'm looking to migrate away from Goodreads (luckily I didn't get too far into using it).

Hoping for something very open/non-corporate.

Thoughts on #Bookwyrm vs #Openlibrary ?

Bookwyrm seems to be missing a lot of books. And the work to add them seems a waste when I can go upstream to OpenLibrary. OL lacks the social features but Bookwyrm seems very uh... basic & kinda ugly. 🤔

#reading #books

hmm when there is a book in #Openlibrary (to add it to #bookwyrm) but I only find the english edition but not the german (which also has a different ISBN -- should I add it as a separate book?

This time even the german an english title are the same.