mekarpeles

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by mekarpeles 5d ago
I think archiving the world's books is as valuable as websites. Many books represent years of an author's life writing authoritatively on a subject. And there are a staggering number of books (especially before 1980) that are simp
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by mekarpeles 5d ago
COVID was a particularly treacherous period for a lot of humans. Replying as myself, not my employer. I’m not offering an opinion about the program, as I was not directly involved; I’m only noting circumstances that I think are often under-
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by mekarpeles 7d ago
Wonderful to see @raybb and @anandology in this thread. Lots of operational challenges come up when running a service for 14M patrons. And Open Library in particular has a handful of challenges. 1. It's database has grown significantly
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by mekarpeles 2y ago
> it frankly disgusts me that the project's current management has for the last few years had its focus on fighting windmills in court instead of their core mission - preserving our digital history. Hi, Mek here (speaking as myself)
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by mekarpeles 2y ago
Thank you for posting @mdp2021 -- Mek here, program lead for OpenLibrary.org at the Internet Archive. Over the last several months, readers have felt the devastating impact of more than 500,000 books being removed from the Internet Archive&
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by mekarpeles 2y ago
Mek here, program lead for OpenLibrary.org at the Internet Archive with important updates and a way for library lovers to help protect an Internet that champions library values. Over the last several months, readers have felt the devastatin
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by mekarpeles 3y ago
very helpful, thank you. Good to learn international use case is working okay for you (I know we can improve). If you're not on our slack already, feel free to email me @ <mek@archive.org> -- you're welcome to ask questions
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by mekarpeles 3y ago
That's awesome. May I ask, for pre-ISBN books, do you typically look up books by title? What do you do with books when you find them? What is your primary use case / reason? Is it as a reference library (of things to read)? Keepin
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by mekarpeles 3y ago
Hi, can I ask what books were missing? The more examples we have, the more we can update our bots to make sure these books get either imported or fixed within our search engine. I completely understand wanting to use a service that has the
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by mekarpeles 3y ago
I disagree that having a popular flagship federated service negates decentralization. The point of decentralization is not to destroy the ability to centralize (see e.g. git versus SVN and then look at github). The advantage is that federat
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by mekarpeles 3y ago
Mek here from Open Library, thanks for your kind words. Here! Check our @cdrini's https://openlibrary.org/barcodescanner
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by mekarpeles 3y ago
Hi, Mek here from Open Library. I was incredibly lucky to work at the Internet Archive the same time as Mouse and couldn't be more proud of their work on BookWyrm. Open Library and its network of generous volunteers have (I hope) made
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by mekarpeles 3y ago
Am curious what languages are supported
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by mekarpeles 3y ago
Great idea, using AI to Pimsleur-ize anything.
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by mekarpeles 4y ago
Readium LCP will be an alternative to adobe ADE.
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by mekarpeles 4y ago
Internet Archive is implementing readium LCP which is an open drm standard with many competing readers like Thorium. No adobe ID required.
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by mekarpeles 4y ago
Thank you Ray! https://openlibrary.org/volunteer We have community calls ever Tuesday @ 9am PT and design calls 9am PT Friday! We're currently talking about 2023 planning and everyone's feedback is welcome. - mek
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by mekarpeles 4y ago
By buying their books! The books on internet archive have been purchased by or donated to the library, the same way all libraries work across the US. Books are lent using the same 1:1 owned to loaned ratios. Open library is a catalog and pu
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by mekarpeles 4y ago
How can we improve the reading experience? Have you tried the Open Library Reader app? Looking forward to your advice! Thank you! - mek + open library
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by mekarpeles 4y ago
Mek here with the Open Library team. In the past two years we've imported about 8 million modern books, including options to import your Goodreads books. The community has merged 25,000 duplicate works and cleaned data for another 200k
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by mekarpeles 5y ago
this is great work -- if you y'all need more book data (or non-google data) or have any interest in featuring free borrow links to titles which are digitally available from the Internet Archive's digital library, let me know and I
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by mekarpeles 5y ago
mek here from Open Library -- not sure what data booqsi is using but we're very happy to share our catalog's data publicly and freely with the world https://openlibrary.org/developers/dumps
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by mekarpeles 5y ago
I think many people in these comments are bound to talk past each other when the real answer is: Yes, Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme (by virtue of people making it so), but that does not, nor should it, imply that the only thing Bitcoin is, is a
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by mekarpeles 5y ago
This is great! Thank you for the interest! We've had a rudimentary bot system for the past 10 years or so. Let's please talk if you where others would like to get set up with a bot account and write access! https://gith
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by mekarpeles 5y ago
Yes! Here's the issue: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/5022 Sorry about that, on the docket for this upcoming week. We're currently staffed by two eng (myself included) w/
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by mekarpeles 5y ago
Mek here from internet archive's OpenLibrary.org. Open Library was started by @aaronsw. We're a library catalog with 3M+ books to read & borrow. We've been around for 15 years, not going anywhere. We're open source a
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
To my knowledge, every preview includes at minimum the basic front-matter (such as those you describe). There are other mechanisms in place which enable specific controlled use cases e.g. limited page previews for folks coming from Wikipedi
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
Thanks for noticing, our primary goal is making sure a minimal experience catalog works (best we can) for folks in lower bandwidth areas, older devices, etc. I've been meeting w/ John Gilmore (EFF) & RMS to make sure we'r
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
If you're able to describe how it's wrong, an issue on https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/new would be appreciated! Thank you!

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