![]() However, we at NYPL are still left with very limited (and expensive) solutions to this problem. There are some projects such as Recovering the Classics that approach this problem in interesting ways. It’s difficult to find high-quality, reusable covers of out-of-print or public domain books. ![]() They are problematic, and not only in ebooks. If you spend a few minutes browsing that site you will notice that many of its ebooks either have a really crappy cover image or none at all:īook covers weren’t a big deal until the 20th century, but now they’re how people first interact with a book, so not having one really puts a book at a disadvantage. Many of the ebooks we will be offering come from public domain sites such as Project Gutenberg. I am doing the design (and writing blog posts). John Nowak is writing the code of the app itself (that you will be able to download to your phone). ![]() On the technical side, Leonard Richardson is doing all the back end magic, consolidating multiple data sources for each book into a single concise format: title, author, book cover and description. Here at NYPL Labs we’re working on an ebook-borrowing and reading app. Versión en español pronto.įinding better covers for public domain ebooks Este post fue publicado inicialmente en los blogs de NYPL. ![]()
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