Open Library

We lend ebooks worldwide, for free. Over two million free ebooks available and 1M more in our lending library. A web page for every book.

[Open Library @openlibrary]

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

[Open Library @openlibrary]

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!

[Open Library @openlibrary]

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

[Open Library @openlibrary]

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.

[Open Library @openlibrary]

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.

[Open Library @openlibrary]

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

[Open Library @openlibrary]

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!

[Open Library @openlibrary]

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?

[Open Library @openlibrary]

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

[Open Library @openlibrary]

@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!

[Open Library @openlibrary]

@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.

[Open Library @openlibrary]

@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.

[Open Library @openlibrary]

@BradAndrews Open Library is temporarily in limited-access mode as the organization continued security upgrades. We hope for another update on Monday. Thank you for your understanding.

[Open Library @openlibrary]

@Bob1314Scott Open Library is temporarily in limited-access mode as the organization continued security upgrades. We hope for another update on Monday. Thank you for your understanding.

[Open Library @openlibrary]

@luisehica Thank you, we're working diligently to get Open Library's services back up and will post updates soon.

[Open Library @openlibrary]

We're so grateful, so thankful to have so many of you with us on this journey together: rain and shine.

We'll be back as soon as we can, with your library shelves as you left them.

Love,
The @openlibrary community

[Open Library @openlibrary]

Look, libraries have 1⃣ job: invest their resources to serve the underserved public. When conditions are hardest, that's when it's *most* important to do our jobs well. We're not perfect, but we are working as hard as we can, with what we have, to restore services for everyone.

[Open Library @openlibrary]

There will always be setbacks, attacks, people who wish we could do a better job, people who may dislike libraries.

What we can & will do is: listen, try to grow and improve, and offer the underserved materials they need, as best we can.

That is our mission.