The entire @openlibrary.org team would like to express our deep sadness at the loss of our friend Greg Newby who, for years, has seeded @gutenberg.org with public good, open access values worth continuing to follow. Thank you for your beautiful contributions. You are missed.

Help us celebrate the efforts of Open Library’s global contributors at this year’s Community Celebration. tinyurl.com/5dayhctr

Here’s how our lean-but-mighty team is improving search to handle heavy demand while adding new search features. tinyurl.com/7kprmueu

Here’s how to see what books are trending now on Open Library. tinyurl.com/mv9ute7w

The new trending books algorithm surfaces books with a spike in activity hour by hour, so you can discover the books that are getting interest right now. tinyurl.com/mv9ute7w

Now, borrowable K-12 books within the Open Library catalog are searchable by reading level. tinyurl.com/bdu3tcuu

Know of a new web book that should be added to our catalog? Tell us about it here. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Your kids can read along with the Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Summer Reading Club. Find books suitable for Daisy, Brownie, Junior or Cadette level in this collection.

Now, patrons with qualifying print disabilities can apply for special access when they register on Open Library.

Welcome to @ronibhakta.bsky.social and Sandy Chu, who were selected from a competitive field of applicants to work with Open Library for Google Summer of Code 2025. Stay tuned for micro-updates about their progress throughout the summer.

OpenLibrary.org may be temporarily offline today for the next ten minutes as we grow and resize our database servers. 🌱 You may still use Archive.org while you're waiting!

We’ve made improvements under the hood—now subject pages in our textbooks collection load faster. openlibrary.org/subjects/tex...

We’ve added reading levels to 10,000 K-12 books (with more to come). Now you can filter books by Lexile reading level in search. Use this query to try it out. bit.ly/42DMs2I

Tell us: Which of these features would you be most excited to see on openlibrary.org? 1. Community Tags (like Archive of Our Own) 2. The ability to nominate Best Books on any topic 3. Following other readers 4. On-the-fly book translations 5. Better collections 6. Other?

Now millions of books will appear with preview links on Open Library search results!

As part of an MLIS internship, @jordanfrederick.bsky.social has been working to refine Open Library’s catalogue and collections.

🧵 A few highlights from @openlibrary.org's 2024 Board Presentation

We're happy to be on @bsky.app! Allow us to introduce ourselves: we're OpenLibrary.org, the world's non-profit, open-source book catalog run by @archive.org + community. (You might know us from x.com/openlibrary) Let's build an equitable, open library together for the world's readers ❤️📚