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Originally Posted by hobnail
And for the public domain books there shouldn't be any need to restrict how many times they're checked out simultaneously.
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Agreed.
If you believe they're wrongly categorized/restricted, you can also report that in their form:
https://openlibrary.org/contact
Or the Internet Archive email:
info@archive.org
I recently came across a post-1923 reprint of a 1912 book. Should've been in the public domain.
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Originally Posted by hobnail
For the public domain books what I want is to be able to download the pdf/txt files.
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And the public domain books aren't available in the main Archive.org Books search?
Or does the Archive.org page also point to the OpenLibrary to borrow?
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Originally Posted by hobnail
I'm guessing that they don't have the resources to determine which are public domain so they're using the same procedure for almost everything although old magazines can still be downloaded.
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If you think the data is wrong, report it. They'll fix it eventually.
A lot of this metadata is based on automated tools that try to pull years from title/copyright pages (and/or a human input the info wrongly).