On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Klaus Graf klausgraf@googlemail.com wrote:
We (2 people from De Wikisource) have experience with that service. It takes more time than announced but there 20+ books scanned for us successfully. Unfortunately there is a very few selection of German books wich are in the Open Library - BPL has a lot of German books but it is sad that only a few are available for this great service. For English books the situation is much more better.
When searching in the Open Library please note that all numbers given on the right side for "scannable" are wrong. You have to find catalog entries with at least "scannable (1)". Try e.g. search string German: scannable (1), but 183 books are scannable.
It took me a while to understand what you meant. In case anyone else is having problems, search for "German", and then click on "scannable (1)" on the right hand side, which then displays the 183 books, mostly in German language, which can be scanned.
(I was trying to search on "German: scannable (1)", ... http://openlibrary.org/search?q=German%3A+scannable(1) ...and that wasnt working for me.)
Clicking on "Full text: available" shows 6403 books that have already been scanned, however those results appear to be the same as available on archive.org.
-- John Vandenberg