Thursday, October 30th, 2008
From the announcement on the Open Library homepage:
Introducing Scan-On-Demand!
In partnership with the Internet Archive and OpenLibrary.org, the Boston Public Library is excited to announce a new program to allow users and patrons to "Scan-on-Demand". It's easy and free! Books are delivered to you, electronically, in 5-7 days
Quick inspection of this ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
One of the POD companies we experiment with, is changing their prices effective October 28th, 2008. Some sizes will get cheaper, some more expensive. Once the pricing goes into effect, I will post more details as to how it will affect this service. We are hoping to take advantage of ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
I am happy to announce that the infamous illustration problem in PublicDomainReprints.org has been fixed. Since the inception, our file conversion had issued with certain Internet Archive titles that had illustrations. That has been fixed as follows:
1. If a book has less than 6 illustrations, it will process in pure ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I did some minor interface updates:
1. A new section was added to the site listing titles that are pending in queue to be processed.
2. Pages for titles already processed were enhanced with cover images and metadata from the original archives, as well as enhanced listing of reprints and links to ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I am going away on vacation until April 30th. If you contact me between now and that date, rest assured that your message was received but you will not get a reply until after that date. For emergencies, please call me at 410-696-4611.
As a pre-caution, PublicDomainReprints.org processing of requests has ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Over the weekend I coded up a new BETA search function for PublicDomainReprints.org which uses Google's AJAX Search API. This new search (which can be found here), lets people search for more public domain books and request reprints without leaving the site. The original search is still available on the ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Dan Cohen recently interviewed me for his podcast at DigitalCampus.tv. You can listed to it here, my interview starts at about 20 minutes in. It is focused mainly on PublicDomainReprints.org and surrounding issues.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Some regular updates:
1. Amazon EC2 image upgraded to Fedore Core 8.
2. The processed book lists and the 20 recent book RSS feed now point to a book details page.
3. Support for additional link formats has been added.
4. Store links have been removed since they were confusing people.
5. We are still ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Here are some bug fixes that were implemented on PublicDomainReprints.org:
Resizing for Internet Archive books did not fully work for books that were too large. This has been fixed.
Support for illustrations in Google Books has been fixed.
Support for more Google Books URLs has been added.
Rudimentary support for extra margins has been ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Over the weekend, some minor updates were applied to the PublicDomainReprints.org website and service:
1. A separate RSS feed now exists for updates and blog posts. For now, the blog posts are being pulled out of my personal blog but as the service grows that will probably change.
2. An expanded IPR page now lists terms and conditions of originating archives.
3. The processed books page now has links to ...
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