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What would you be most excited for on .1. Community Tags (like Archive of Our Own).2. The ability to nominate Best Books on any topic.3. Following other readers.4. On-the-fly book translations.5. Better collections.6. Other?.

Next week we plan to release a quality of service upgrade to our /search.json API which should drop load size in some cases from 500kb to 15kb. This may result in a breaking change for some clients. Learn how to update your application here:.

We're so grateful, so thankful to have so many of you with us on this journey together: rain and shine. We'll be back as soon as we can, with your library shelves as you left them. Love,.The @openlibrary community.

There will always be setbacks, attacks, people who wish we could do a better job, people who may dislike libraries. What we can & will do is: listen, try to grow and improve, and offer the underserved materials they need, as best we can. That is our mission.

It must be acknowledged, the world is going through a tough time, on so many fronts. We understand everyone has different circumstances, challenges, reasons. Our community shows care by staying focused and building the best library we can.

The @openlibrary isn't a single person. It's a small, dedicated, team of staff & hundreds of volunteer, open-source contributors from around the globe who are investing their energy to offer the world free, public resources that put humans first and respect reader privacy.

Look, libraries have 1⃣ job: invest their resources to serve the underserved public. When conditions are hardest, that's when it's *most* important to do our jobs well. We're not perfect, but we are working as hard as we can, with what we have, to restore services for everyone.

On October 29, 2024 at 9a PT, the @openlibrary will host it's 4th annual virtual Community Celebration to honor the wonderful humans who make the Internet a more useful & trustworthy place for researchers & learners. We thank you 🙇📚.

In the month since we've launched this change, more than 40,000 patrons who *would* have hit dead ends have instead been shown fallbacks. Thank you Meredith and the @openlibrary community for helping improve the lives of thousands of book lovers!

Why did we spend time on a "search inside" fallback?. Throughout 2023 we conducted design research to better understand learners & educators who rely on @openlibrary. Many told us they didn't know the search mode could be changed to text mode.

It's a bummer when a book search has no results 🚧. Thanks to our 2024 Fellow Meredith W: search now falls back to look for text matches inside books! 🎉

RT @mekarpeles: In less than 1️⃣ hour, 10am ET, join the court case livestream where the @internetarchive will state their argument to defe….

RT @mekarpeles: @aaronsw @openlibrary @internetarchive @library_futures Already, @internetarchive & @openlibrary have been forced to remove….

RT @mekarpeles: ⏰ "The Countdown to Save US Libraries". 4⃣ days left before courts deliberate on the future of libraries. ✊ I wholeheartedl….

RT @internetarchive: 🚨 500,000+ Books Gone 🚨. We’re collecting your stories about what it means to lose access to more than 500,000 books,….

🚨 More than *500,000* @openlibrary books, rightfully owned by the @internetarchive, have been eliminated from the library by publisher demand. ✒️ Sign this open letter urging publishers to restore access to these library books and #LetReadersRead:.

RT @internetarchive: 📚 Attention Readers & Researchers 📚. More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the pub….

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