Hacker News
- The Digital Public Library of America is trying to make the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums freely available for everyone. Help them out by checking out their nifty API! http://dp.la/info/developers/codex/ 46 comments programming
- Digital Public Library of America [DPLA] to open today, April 18, at 12pm ET. http://dp.la/ 7 comments technology
Linking pages
- Amazon’s monopoly is squeezing your public library, too - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/10/amazon-library-ebook-monopoly/ 296 comments
- The lie of the API | Ruben Verborgh http://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2013/11/29/the-lie-of-the-api/ 119 comments
- How Google Book Search Got Lost | WIRED https://backchannel.com/how-google-book-search-got-lost-c2d2cf77121d 80 comments
- Memory of Mankind: All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/human-knowledge-salt-mine/512552/?single_page=true 79 comments
- New York Public Library Invites a Deep Digital Dive - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/books/new-york-public-library-invites-a-deep-digital-dive.html 39 comments
- 25 sources of free public domain books http://ebookfriendly.com/free-public-domain-books-sources/ 29 comments
- How Google Book Search Got Lost | WIRED https://backchannel.com/how-google-book-search-got-lost-c2d2cf77121d?amp%3Bgi=cb4adae8987&mc_cid=056e12a58e 11 comments
- The White House and Michelle Obama Release $250M ‘Open eBooks’ App for Title I and Special Education Teachers | EdSurge News https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-02-24-the-white-house-and-michelle-obama-release-250m-open-library-app-for-title-i-and-special-education-teachers 10 comments
- Ebook anxieties increase as publishing revolution rolls on | Ebooks | The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/24/ebook-publishing-amazon 9 comments
- Hiring: The First Librarian of Congress for the Internet Age - The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/06/hiring-the-first-librarian-of-congress-for-the-internet-age/396038/?single_page=true 7 comments
- 100,000 Digitized Art History Materials from the Getty Research Institute Now Available in the Digital Public Library of America | Getty Iris http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/100000-digitized-art-history-materials-from-the-getty-research-institute-availble-in-dpla/ 3 comments
- Library as Infrastructure https://placesjournal.org/article/library-as-infrastructure/ 2 comments
- The Next Librarian of Congress Should Be an Actual Librarian | The New Republic http://www.newrepublic.com/article/123045/next-librarian-congress-should-be-actual-librarian 2 comments
- How to Use Your Library Card to Check Out E-Books, Audiobooks and More - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/technology/personaltech/library-card-ebooks-apps-libby.html 2 comments
- What Google's Victory Against the Authors Guild Means for Readers and Libraries - The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/what-the-google-books-victory-means-for-readers-and-libraries/411910/?single_page=true 0 comments
- Alexandria in the Googleplex. The Pre-History of the Universal… | by Stephanie Ann Frampton | EIDOLON https://eidolon.pub/alexandria-in-the-googleplex-or-the-pre-history-of-the-universal-library-cf6a2a5c3198 0 comments
- How Google Book Search Got Lost | WIRED https://www.wired.com/2017/04/how-google-book-search-got-lost/ 0 comments
- How Google Book Search Got Lost | WIRED https://backchannel.com/how-google-book-search-got-lost-c2d2cf77121d?mbid=synd_digg 0 comments
- How to Run a Collaborative Hackathon: The Cheatsheet | by Jennifer 8. Lee | CODEX HACK | Medium https://medium.com/codex-hack/how-to-run-a-collaborative-hackathon-the-cheatsheet-72cb24cf2bcb 0 comments
- One Google Books To Rule Them All? - The Awl http://www.theawl.com/2011/10/one-google-books-to-rule-them-all 0 comments