Impressive! As luck would have it, I'm working on the question of book
images in Koha this week...
--joe atzberger
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:14 AM, Godmar Back <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> I think this proposal suffers from the same shortcoming as
> LibraryThing's widgets, which is that only one per page is allowed. Aj
> better way may be to use spans and classes and keep the JavaScript in
> a library.
> I've attached the resulting HTML below; see http://libx.org/gbs/ for a
> demo.
>
> - Godmar
>
> --- index.html:
> !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> <html>
> <head>
> <script src="http://libx.org/gbs/gbsclasses.js"
> type="text/javascript"> </script>
> <title>Simple Demo for Google Book Classes</title>
> </head>
>
> <body>
> <span title="ISBN:0743226720" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span>
> <span title="ISBN:0061234001" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span>
> <span title="ISBN:1931798230" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span>
>
> <span title="ISBN:0596000278" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span>
> <span title="0439554934" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span>
> <span title="OCLC:60348769" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span>
> <span title="LCCN:2004022563" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Tim Spalding <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > (Apologies for cross-posting)
> >
> > I just posted a simple way to get free book covers into your OPAC. It
> > uses the new Google Book Search API.
> >
> >
> http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/03/free-covers-for-your-library-from.php
> >
> > I think Google has as much cover coverage as anyone. The API is free.
> > Most libraries pay. I'm thinking this is a big deal?
> >
> > We'll probably fancy it up a bit as an add-on to our LibraryThing for
> > Libraries service, but the core idea can be implemented by anyone.
> >
> > I look forward to refinements.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > --
> > Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding
> >
>
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