Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api

2013-12-05 Thread Kaile Zhu
aries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Keith Jenkins Sent: 2013年12月4日 13:50 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api So, any bets on which book cover image provider will be the first to implement IIIF? http://www-sul.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api/1.1/ Keith O

Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api

2013-12-04 Thread Joshua Welker
aries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Amy Drayer Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 12:02 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api Dear Kelly et al: I agree to a certain degree with Jonathan that you can use CSS to resize the images if alternate sizes ar

Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api

2013-12-04 Thread Kaile Zhu
[mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Keith Jenkins Sent: 2013年12月4日 13:50 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api So, any bets on which book cover image provider will be the first to implement IIIF? http://www-sul.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api/1.1/ Keith On Wed, Dec 4

Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api

2013-12-04 Thread Keith Jenkins
So, any bets on which book cover image provider will be the first to implement IIIF? http://www-sul.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api/1.1/ Keith On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Open Library book covers come in S, M and L - > > https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers > > Of c

Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api

2013-12-04 Thread Karen Coyle
Open Library book covers come in S, M and L - https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers Of course, if what you want isn't exactly one of those... kc On 12/4/13 9:34 AM, Kaile Zhu wrote: A while ago, we had a discussion about book cover APIs. I tried some of those mentioned and found they

Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api

2013-12-04 Thread Michael Schofield
for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Keith Jenkins Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 1:16 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api I was a bit surprised that these techniques from 2005 still work... http://aaugh.com/imageabuse.html Basi

Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api

2013-12-04 Thread Keith Jenkins
I was a bit surprised that these techniques from 2005 still work... http://aaugh.com/imageabuse.html Basically, Amazon cover images can be manipulated via the URL. Of course, you'll probably want to check Amazon's terms of use. Keith

Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api

2013-12-04 Thread Amy Drayer
Dear Kelly et al: I agree to a certain degree with Jonathan that you can use CSS to resize the images if alternate sizes are not available. However, I would not recommend changing the ratio or increasing the size of the original image. With Retina displays (Apple), in order to keep any kind of n

Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api

2013-12-04 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > I don't know of any free book cover api that resizes images for you to > your specifications, they all only offer images at certain sizes. I don't > know about the commercial services like syndectics etc. As a data point, the last

[CODE4LIB] book cover api

2013-12-04 Thread Kaile Zhu
A while ago, we had a discussion about book cover APIs. I tried some of those mentioned and found they are working to some degree, but none of them would offer the size I want. The flexibility of the size is just not there. The size I am looking for is like this: http://img1.imagesbn.com/p/97

Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api

2013-12-04 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
If the size you want is just a bit smaller than a size offered by a service, you can simply deliver it in an HTML img tag that has it's size set to what you want (with CSS is the best way), and it'll be more or less fine. You could also software on your end to resize the images to be somewhat