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Open Library @openlibrary

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.

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Lovely to explore books using @vanstriendaniel's Open Library Atlas demo: huggingface.co/spaces/davans…

Open Library Atlas - a Hugging Face Space by davanstrien

Upload a file containing vector embeddings (such as word, image, or graph embeddings) and see them projected onto an interactive 2‑D map. You can pan, zoom, and hover over points to reveal details,...

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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 Archive.org. Thanks for your patience!

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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
7 Dec 2025
We are experiencing service disruptions and are working to resolve the issue. Sorry for delays!
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The Internet Archive's Ops Team is addressing a hardware issue with a network switch following an unplanned upstream power outage. Openlibrary.org will have intermittent access as equipment is cycled. Thank you for your patience.

Internet Archive
@internetarchive
20 Nov 2025
The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org 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: blog.openlibrary.org/2025/08…
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We are working on restoring access after an upstream power outage. Thank you for your patience! x.com/internetarchive/status…

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@internetarchive
6 Jun 2025
Archive.org is temporarily offline. We are working to restore access. Apologies for the disruption!
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OpenLibrary.org may be temporarily offline today for the next ten minutes as we grow and resize our database servers. 🌱 You may still use Archive.org while you're waiting!
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What would you be most excited for on OpenLibrary.org? 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: blog.openlibrary.org/2025/01…
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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.
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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.
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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
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On October 29, 2024 at 9a PT, the @openlibrary will host it's 4th annual virtual Community Celebration to honor the wonderful humans who make the Internet a more useful & trustworthy place for researchers & learners. forms.gle/hUPLLj1E8yNrL4h16 We thank you 🙇📚

2024 Open Library Community Celebration

Join us on Tuesday, October 29 at 9am PT for the 2024 virtual Open Library Community Celebration, where we honor dozens of contributors who have selflessly served the mission of making books more...

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Open Library@openlibrary
1 Nov 2023
Yesterday the @openlibrary hosted it's 3rd annual Community Celebration to honor contributors from around the globe who work on openlibrary.org. ♥️ Thank you staff, fellows, volunteers, donors, & patrons for helping us achieve another meaningful year!
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It's a bummer when a book search has no results 🚧 Thanks to our 2024 Fellow Meredith W: search now falls back to look for text matches inside books! 🎉
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Why did we spend time on a "search inside" fallback? Throughout 2023 we conducted design research to better understand learners & educators who rely on @openlibrary. Many told us they didn't know the search mode could be changed to text mode. blog.openlibrary.org/2024/06…
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In the month since we've launched this change, more than 40,000 patrons who *would* have hit dead ends have instead been shown fallbacks. Thank you Meredith and the @openlibrary community for helping improve the lives of thousands of book lovers!
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In less than 1️⃣ hour, 10am ET, join the court case livestream where the @internetarchive will state their argument to defend the future of libraries. ww2.ca2.uscourts.gov/court.h… - Courtroom 1505 I believe @aaronsw's @openlibrary must prevail.
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