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Barty · 07-22-2015, 02:12 PM

A friend of mine turned me onto openlibrary.org. I went and searched for an ebook my library did not have. They had it. Whoopie. Checked it out. They used Adobe DRM. It all looked fine.

Except when I opened the book it was clear that it was a poor scan job. And there was no copyright pages. Uh oh.

So I googled "is openlibrary legit?" (Okay maybe that was something I should've done /before/ giving them my name and email.) Well they are a legit organization and they have paper books on loan like other libraries, but what they are doing with ebooks is let's say questionable. (I did not check out anything else so I don't know if all their other ebooks are the same.) Seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen. They probably have escaped the wrath of the publishers so far because they are non profit.

I suppose this is old news for folks here but I did not know.

07-22-2015, 02:12 PM	#1
Barty doofus Posts: 2,551 Karma: 13089041 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Voyage	So what's the deal with openlibrary.org A friend of mine turned me onto openlibrary.org. I went and searched for an ebook my library did not have. They had it. Whoopie. Checked it out. They used Adobe DRM. It all looked fine. Except when I opened the book it was clear that it was a poor scan job. And there was no copyright pages. Uh oh. So I googled "is openlibrary legit?" (Okay maybe that was something I should've done /before/ giving them my name and email.) Well they are a legit organization and they have paper books on loan like other libraries, but what they are doing with ebooks is let's say questionable. (I did not check out anything else so I don't know if all their other ebooks are the same.) Seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen. They probably have escaped the wrath of the publishers so far because they are non profit. I suppose this is old news for folks here but I did not know.