Open Library will be down from during the following time due to a scheduled power outage.
Thank you for your cooperation.
UPDATE 5:30PM PST: openlibrary.org is back online.
Aaron Swartz committed suicide yesterday (Jan 11, 2013).
The Open Library wouldn’t exist without him. He wrote the backbone of the system you see today, hired the team that built the first version of the website.
He founded Demand Progress, which launched the campaign against the Internet censorship bills (SOPA/PIPA), coauthored the RSS 1.0 specification, cofounded the online news site Reddit, among many other good things.
His death is a great loss to all of us. May his soul rest in peace.
We’re planning for a scheduled downtime on Sunday, August 5 for migrating our database server to new hardware. Open Library will be unavailable for about 3 hours during 7:00 PM PST – 10:00 PM PST. We’ll post here when the site’s back online.
UPDATE 8:40PM PST: The migration is complete. Both openlibrary.org and covers.openlibrary.org are back online.
We have done some improvements to coverstore, the Open Library book covers service, recently.
Now it is possible to access book covers by all the available identifiers. For example:
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