[bksvol-discuss] Re: Open LIbrary
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:18:52 -0800
Interesting. Thanks fair that info (both where to sign up and the
non-relationship to Gutenberg; the what? fg\goal statement? reminded me of
Gutenberg's, though as you point out that only has non-copyrighted
material. smile
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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/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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