Your favorite digital library is [MADE IN] more than 15 countries by wonderful, passionate, caring human beings: blog.openlibrary.org/2024/05/20/the…

📚 Attention Readers & Researchers 📚 More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers' lawsuit. Have you been affected? Share your story with us and help us fight to restore access. #LetReadersRead 👉 forms.gle/G2GXK6xwMZ3t8o…

🚨 More than *500,000* Open Library books, rightfully owned by the Internet Archive, have been eliminated from the library by publisher demand. ✒️ Sign this open letter urging publishers to restore access to these library books and #LetReadersRead: change.org/p/let-readers-…

🚨 500,000+ Books Gone 🚨 We’re collecting your stories about what it means to lose access to more than 500,000 books, taken down by publishers. Share your experience in the form linked in our bio to support our appeal! #LetReadersRead

⏰ "The Countdown to Save US Libraries" 4⃣ days left before courts deliberate on the future of libraries ✊ I wholeheartedly support Aaron Swartz's Open Library, the Internet Archive, and believe in Library Futures 📚 My take: mekarpeles.medium.com/the-countdown-…

Aaron Swartz Open Library Internet Archive Library Futures Already, Internet Archive & Open Library have been forced to remove 500,000 library books from lending, including 50+ year old literary classics, like Fahrenheit 451 & 1984. Sign the open letter, urge publishers to #LetLibrariesLend & #LetReadersRead: change.org/LetReadersRead

In less than 1️⃣ hour, 10am ET, join the court case livestream where the Internet Archive will state their argument to defend the future of libraries. ww2.ca2.uscourts.gov/court.html - Courtroom 1505 I believe Aaron Swartz's Open Library must prevail.

On October 29, 2024 at 9a PT, the Open Library 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. forms.gle/hUPLLj1E8yNrL4… We thank you 🙇📚

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: blog.openlibrary.org/2025/01/16/api…

What would you be most excited for on OpenLibrary.org? 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?

OpenLibrary.org may be temporarily offline today for the next ten minutes as we grow and resize our database servers. 🌱 You may still use Archive.org while you're waiting!

We are working on restoring access after an upstream power outage. Thank you for your patience! x.com/internetarchiv…