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Welcome to the Open Library blog, a place we do occasional updates about Open Library. Here are some other places to learn about Open Library and Internet Archive projects.

Open Library is on Twitter.
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Open Library has developer documentation and here are places you can get more developer docs.
The Internet Archive has their own blog.
There are five million searchable images from Open Library on Flickr.

Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive that lends ebooks worldwide for free. If you have questions about the project, please contact us or leave a comment on the blog.

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shri

Posted July 11, 2016 at 2:12 pm | Permalink

thanks open library!

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Judi Ritcey

Posted March 15, 2018 at 1:06 am | Permalink

This sounds too good to be true. Is there any charge at all for using this archive.

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- mek
  
  Posted June 2, 2018 at 7:15 am | Permalink
  
  No charge! You’re welcome to donate if you appreciate the service we provide (https://archive.org/donate).
  
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Shubham Gajeshwar

Posted April 7, 2019 at 7:27 am | Permalink

Thankyou, you are encouraging a lot of readers and helping those who can’t pay to buy books.

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Jelle

Posted October 15, 2019 at 5:42 am | Permalink

Is this the Open Library project Aaron Swartz was involved in?

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Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
Other projects include the Wayback Machine, archive.org and archive-it.org. Your use of the Open Library is subject to the Internet Archive's Terms of Use.

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