On Jan 6, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Lee Passey wrote: > On Mon, January 3, 2011 11:52 am, Karen Coyle wrote: > >> I don't believe that you can manually add a link that appears in the >> table of readable versions -- those are generated automatically from >> books in the Internet Archive and a few other sources. (Perhaps >> someone here knows if it would make sense for you to donate the book >> to the archive and get it listed that way.) You could add a general >> link (it's the "links" tab in edit mode) and label it: "link to full >> text" or something like that. > > What I think very few people realize is that what the 'Only show ebooks' check > box means is not "Only show records that refer to ebooks," but "Only show > records for books that have page scans stored at the Internet Archive," and > that what the "Read online" button really means is "View page scans for those > books stored at the Internet Archive using the Internet Archive's image viewer > program."
This isn't true. It seems there are three kinds of e-books that OL knows about: - public domian books available to read online in the IA bookreader - DAISY books available to those who are print-disabeld. - eBooks available to borrow from OverDrive and readable in Adobe Digital Editions This list will expand in the future. This is easily verified by searching for anything and selecting the "Only show ebooks" checkbox. For example, this search shows three kinds of icons next to the results: http://openlibrary.org/search?q=foo&has_fulltext=true - "Read" books are currently public domain books in the IA bookreader - "Borrow" books are currently books available from OverDrive, but other borrowable e-books will be added soon. - "DAISY" books show a lock icon, since they are only readable to those who are print-disabled with a NLS credential > I have very little hope that these misconceptions will ever be remedied. > > On Tue, January 4, 2011 2:00 pm, Roger Loran Bailey wrote: > >> Some annotations on the books on a list would be good, but allowing group >> discussions of the books amounts to turning what is essentially a catalog >> into a literary social network. I would say that sites like Goodreads is >> good enough for that and the links to it are right on the Open Library site. > > It seems to me that there are basically two kinds of links relevant to OL's > catalog records: links to digitial versions of a specific edition (e.g. texts > at Project Gutenberg or Google), and links to data /about/ a work or edition > cataloged at OL (e.g. Wikipedia or LibraryThing). I would distinguish these > two types of links as "manifestation links" versus "metadata links." > > Would it be possible to split up these two kinds of links in the OL records > (and alter the corresponding user interface)? If we had this, it might be > possible to craft a type of query that would return records referring to > digitized works which exist on the internet /outside/ of the Internet Archive. > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
