Open Library
Editable online catalog with user-sourced entries, metadata, cover art, and digital lending for millions of books, searchable by author, subject, or ISBN, including over one million Public Domain works available for download or borrowing via various digital formats.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Online
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What is Open Library?
One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty but achievable goal.
Book database and digital lending libraryIts book information is collected from the Library of Congress, other libraries, and Amazon.com, as well as from user contributions through a Wiki-like interface.
Open Library claims to have 6 million authors and 20 million books (not works), and about one million Public Domain books are available as digitized books.
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Very useful, intuitive, open source alternative to Goodreads.
It does not allow to filter for free/public domain books.
I think it is the best alternative to Goodreads.