The Internet’s Own Boy, the documentary about Aaron Swartz, premieres online and in theaters today. You can watch it on the Internet Archive. From the film’s website
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Resolved: Open Library unexpected downtime
Update: This should now be resolved. 6 pm PDT.
Adobe had an unprecedented license server outage for most of the day on May 15th (PDT). Users have experienced issues checking books out of our lending library, mainly getting various Adobe errors. We are still trying to resolve the issues resulting from Adobe’s server outage and hope to fix the problem as quickly as possible. We’ve been in contact with our license provider and we hope to have it fixed soon. In the meantime lending/reading books via the BookReader is still functioning normally.
Apologies for the inconvenience. We’ll update the help page when it’s fixed.
Lists are here!
Open Library is happy to report that the Lists feature is here, for your collection-building enjoyment! You can create and share lists that include authors, works (all editions of a specific title), specific editions, and subjects.
While browsing around, you can see when an item has been added to somebody’s list – just look underneath the Add to List button. Here are some items that have been listed so far:
New BookReader!
We’re pleased to announce the release of our freshly re-designed BookReader on the Internet Archive. Continue reading
Thumbnail View in BookReader!
We’re pleased to introduce a new thumbnail view for the Internet Archive BookReader. The thumbnail view gives you a quick visual impression of a book by seeing thumbnails of many pages at once. It’s a great way to quickly scan through a book.
Here’s how it looks for a book about the painter Goya:
The thumbnail view also makes it easy to pick out particular pages of interest, for example if you were trying to find the Burrowing Owl in Bird life in an Arctic Spring. Hint: here’s what he looks like:
You might also try looking at Old English colour prints or some of the other books about color prints.
This feature was submitted by Stephanie Collett of the California Digital Library via our BookReader GitHub account. It’s great to have this feature come in from the open source community building around the BookReader!