No, Open Library is basically a catalog. They have 1,022,608 accessible books available for download and 652,288 accessible books in the English language available for download. That figure includes books that they have acquired from Project Gutenberg. If you count only their collection of protected Daisy books then they have 328,637 books available for download.
On 12/31/2011 11:53 AM, Kim Friedman wrote:
Hi, Roger, they may have a web page about those books, but I don't know if that means all those books can be downloaded from there. Maybe you might be able to read them online, but you may not always be able to download them to your computer. It's nice knowing they have information on the publishing dates and all that, but I want to actually download the texts and read them on my machine or transfer them to a device. I agree they have a whole lot of information. Regards, Kim Friedman. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 8:30 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Collection Number As of the End of the Year Let me add to that. Open Library has the goal of establishing a web page for every book ever published in any language in history. They have a long way to go to reach that goal, but as of right now if you count the various editions of the various books they list 25,155,361. It appears that Bookshare has a long way to go to catch up. On 12/31/2011 10:48 AM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote:Just in case anyone is interested, I just checked and as of the last day of 2011 there are 129,484 books in the Bookshare collection. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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