Open Library

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The "Inside Books" tab gives readers a new way to search inside millions of books.

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Tapping on the upper right hand corner of a book cover now lets you quickly add books to your book shelf.

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Our new search experiences should help you find readable classics more quickly, just in time for Halloween.

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This year the @openlibrary has seen some lovely design improvements thanks to @lokesh and many open source contributors.

You can play with our evolving design system here:
https://t.co/aEe32qWwpZ

Join us and contribute to design:
https://t.co/ToxhRWmJTD

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@Toph4er Delighted to learn that you are able to use Open Library’s book data to build something meaningful for your family. Congratulations on the new arrival, and thanks for sharing what you built.

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@Andr3izes Desculpem, tivemos um problema técnico causado por um grande volume de solicitações de bots de IA ao nosso sistema. Isso causou problemas na consulta à disponibilidade dos livros.

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Lovely to explore books using @vanstriendaniel's Open Library Atlas demo:
https://t.co/k0onxXAYNG

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On Thursday 2026-03-26 at 10am PT, we plan to put @openlibrary in Read-Only mode for ~1 hour as we perform necessary database upgrades.

At this time: login, reading log, and editing will be unavailable. One may borrow at https://t.co/ZH86ehjVkP. Thanks for your patience!

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@anitakirkovska Neat! Is there a reason you link to amazon books page rather than the book on https://t.co/TxzwYzSddd?

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The Open Library is experiencing a service interruption due to maintenance by our internet server provider. We are working closely with the provider and expect full service within a few hours. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

We are experiencing service disruptions and are working to resolve the issue. Sorry for delays!

[Open Library @openlibrary]

The Internet Archive's Ops Team is addressing a hardware issue with a network switch following an unplanned upstream power outage. https://t.co/fAuExwnNbx will have intermittent access as equipment is cycled. Thank you for your patience.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

The Wayback Machine, https://t.co/W9c5FPIbpT, and some other https://t.co/rvOhn0c6zM functions are offline because some network gear has failed.

We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.

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The entire @openlibrary team would like to express our deep sadness at the loss of our friend @gbnewby who, for years, has seeded @gutenberg_org with public good, open access values worth continuing to follow. Thank you for your beautiful contributions. You are missed.

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What’s Trending on Open Library?

The Open Library launched a new trending algorithm to help book lovers discover books trending right now. 📈

Read more:
https://t.co/X3kfv8VvFx

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We are working on restoring access after an upstream power outage. Thank you for your patience!

https://t.co/Ay2Mp0Lty0

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

https://t.co/KbdcLkyosg is temporarily offline. We are working to restore access. Apologies for the disruption!

[Open Library @openlibrary]

https://t.co/TxzwYzRFnF may be temporarily offline today for the next ten minutes as we grow and resize our database servers. 🌱

You may still use https://t.co/ZH86ehjnvh while you're waiting!

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What would you be most excited for on https://t.co/TxzwYzRFnF?
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?

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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:
https://t.co/s0qZ6KUIzZ

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@kajong We'll investigate whether the pages may be available and simply need to be re-derived, or if a new edition may need to be obtained for digitization. Retrieving and re-digitizing individual books from the physical archive isn't the simplest process!

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@kajong Hi @kajong thank you for reporting this issue and apologies for the delayed response.

Is this the edition you're referencing?
https://t.co/qxtxWe7Toz

I've forwarded to our quality assurance team to flag and review.

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@KarismaPrestley Hi Karisma, are you still experiencing a challenge with your https://t.co/oplEqwuoAe profile picture? The past few weeks our services have been in a limited availability mode while systems have been upgraded.