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Ask HN: Free books database

6 points by aberatiu 13y ago

I'm looking for a (free) book database with name, author, publication year and maybe a small description for every book contained. I need it for a school project. Can anyone help me find one?

mjhea0 13y ago
check out http://isbndb.com http://isbndb.com http://isbndb.com/book/the_wind_up_bird_chronicles http://isbndb.com/book/the_wind_up_bird_chronicles
- aberatiu 13y ago
  That's nice (and with the information I want), but I need something that I can download (an .sql, json, xml or even csv)...
  - gbl08ma 13y ago
    They have an API: http://isbndb.com/api/v1/docs/intro http://isbndb.com/api/v1/docs/intro According to that API intro page, their databases contain over 1.8 million entries for books alone, so the download would be rather big I think.
skidoo 13y ago
Project Gutenberg is my personal favorite: http://www.gutenberg.org/ http://www.gutenberg.org/
m_ram 13y ago
Try http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/bibdata http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/bibdata It's free, downloadable, and has records on almost 13 million items. Just going by the API (http://dp.la/dev/wiki/Item_API http://dp.la/dev/wiki/Item_API), it looks like it has the information that you need.