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Tapping on the upper right hand corner of a book cover now lets you quickly add books to your book shelf.
Our new search experiences should help you find readable classics more quickly, just in time for Halloween.
This year the @openlibrary has seen some lovely design improvements thanks to @lokesh and many open source contributors.
You can play with our evolving design system here:
openlibrary.org/design
Join us and contribute to design:
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Lovely to explore books using @vanstriendaniel's Open Library Atlas demo:
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On Thursday 2026-03-26 at 10am PT, we plan to put @openlibrary in Read-Only mode for ~1 hour as we perform necessary database upgrades.
At this time: login, reading log, and editing will be unavailable. One may borrow at Archive.org. Thanks for your patience!
The Open Library is experiencing a service interruption due to maintenance by our internet server provider. We are working closely with the provider and expect full service within a few hours. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
The Internet Archive's Ops Team is addressing a hardware issue with a network switch following an unplanned upstream power outage. Openlibrary.org will have intermittent access as equipment is cycled. Thank you for your patience.
The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed.
We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.
The entire @openlibrary team would like to express our deep sadness at the loss of our friend @gbnewby who, for years, has seeded @gutenberg_org with public good, open access values worth continuing to follow. Thank you for your beautiful contributions. You are missed.
What’s Trending on Open Library?
The Open Library launched a new trending algorithm to help book lovers discover books trending right now. 📈
Read more:
blog.openlibrary.org/2025/08…
We are working on restoring access after an upstream power outage. Thank you for your patience!
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Archive.org is temporarily offline. We are working to restore access. Apologies for the disruption!
OpenLibrary.org may be temporarily offline today for the next ten minutes as we grow and resize our database servers. 🌱
You may still use Archive.org while you're waiting!
What would you be most excited for on OpenLibrary.org?
1. Community Tags (like Archive of Our Own)
2. The ability to nominate Best Books on any topic
3. Following other readers
4. On-the-fly book translations
5. Better collections
6. Other?
Next week we plan to release a quality of service upgrade to our /search.json API which should drop load size in some cases from 500kb to 15kb.
This may result in a breaking change for some clients. Learn how to update your application here:
blog.openlibrary.org/2025/01…
Look, libraries have 1⃣ job: invest their resources to serve the underserved public. When conditions are hardest, that's when it's *most* important to do our jobs well. We're not perfect, but we are working as hard as we can, with what we have, to restore services for everyone.
There will always be setbacks, attacks, people who wish we could do a better job, people who may dislike libraries.
What we can & will do is: listen, try to grow and improve, and offer the underserved materials they need, as best we can.
That is our mission.
We're so grateful, so thankful to have so many of you with us on this journey together: rain and shine.
We'll be back as soon as we can, with your library shelves as you left them.
Love,
The @openlibrary community
On October 29, 2024 at 9a PT, the @openlibrary will host it's 4th annual virtual Community Celebration to honor the wonderful humans who make the Internet a more useful & trustworthy place for researchers & learners.
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We thank you 🙇📚
Yesterday the @openlibrary hosted it's 3rd annual Community Celebration to honor contributors from around the globe who work on openlibrary.org.
♥️ Thank you staff, fellows, volunteers, donors, & patrons for helping us achieve another meaningful year!
