Roger, that's not quite correct. If you are not print impaired over three million books are now available in Open Library as scanned image versions which a sighted reader can "borrow" in an electronic image version and then check back in in addition to the 44 thousand books from Gutenberg. These millions of books in Open Library are not in the public domain. They still are under current valid copyrights and aren't on Gutenberg. Gutenberg only has around 44 thousand books total, and all of them are in the public domain.
Judy s. On 11/13/2013 7:39 PM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote:
#Open Library does do its own scanning, but they do have Gutenberg books too. Gutenberg has a lot of out of copyright magazines and Open Library would not have those, but they have everything else that Gutenberg has. The scanned copies of in copyright books are available in Daisy format and anyone can download them, but you have to have a device with an NLS key to use them. The books they have gotten from Gutenberg can be downloaded and read by anyone. If you are not print impaired or do not have a device with an NLS key you may as well do your downloading from the Gutenberg site because those are just as readable and the magazines are there too.On 11/13/2013 7:19 PM, Judy s. wrote: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/createOpen 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 smileTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput 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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