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Open Library

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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.

Single book view for 1984

License model

  • Free • Open Source

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Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Online
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Reading list
  2.  Crowdsourced
  3.  Book Manager
  4.  Wiki-like interface
  5.  User Rating
  6.  Ad-free
  7.  Full-Text Search
  8.  Dark Mode
  9.  No registration required
  10.  No Tracking
  11.  REST API

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    US flagInternet Archive

  • Licensing

    Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.

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  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.2

  • Alternatives

    29 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • French
    • German
    • Spanish
    • Czech
    • Croatian
    • Italian
    • Portuguese
    • Hindi
    • Sardinian
    • Telugu
    • Ukrainian
    • Chinese

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  •  5,690 Stars
  •  1,564 Forks
  •  885 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 11, 2025 
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Open Library, and it has gotten 56 likes

Open Library was added to AlternativeTo by Thelle Christensen on May 23, 2013 and this page was last updated May 21, 2025.

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Top Positive Comment
Festo
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Jan 7, 2025
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Very useful, intuitive, open source alternative to Goodreads.

Top Negative Comment
AdinanCenci
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Oct 13, 2021
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It does not allow to filter for free/public domain books.

Jadiar
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Dec 28, 2021
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I think it is the best alternative to Goodreads.

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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