[bksvol-discuss] Re: Open LIbrary
- From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 18:19:41 -0600
Hi Cindy,
In the right hand corner of the open library page is a link that says
"sign up." You can also go directly to the sign up page at the
following link: https://openlibrary.org/account/create
Open Library is unrelated to Gutenberg in any fashion. smile. Gutenberg
only contains works that are in the public domain -- the copyright must
be expired.
Open Library, in contrast, makes available any book they've been able to
scan, and is not at all limited to books in the public domain. It
operates as a lending library under California law with their collection
available to anyone, not just residents of California.
Open Library does all its own scanning and maintains a physical library
of every single book they've scanned as well as the electronic copies.
It's 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.
Judy s.
On 11/13/2013 5:32 PM, Cindy Rosenthal wrote:
I went to the site; I didn't see where to sign up, but maybe that's
because I didn't request a book; however, reading what's posted on the
site, it appears to me to be a reincarnation of Gutenberg; I started
my volunteer work by editing (we were to edit, not just proofread) for
them; I scanned a book that they wouldn't take because it was too new,
and they referred me to Bookshare.org; that's how I got started at
bookshare; and the site does (at least Gutenberg did) work very nicely
on a Mac. I read the whole of Darwin's Voyage of Th Beagle and Jules
Verne's "Voyage to the Moon" ( on Gutenberg; I also used a book from
it (a very old mystery) to validate a bookshare book (no other
copy was available; You might be interested in reading Voyage To the
Moon; the launch site was what is now Cape Canaveral--the site whence
we launch our spaceships to explore Mars, the moon, etc. Verne's
science fiction became reality smile
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