This is awesome Tim, thanks very much.

My software these days investigates several sources of covers, and then 
decides based on availabilty which to use. If I wanted to check LT for a 
cover before deciding to display it, would I just access that kind of 
URL and see if I get a 404 or not?

Jonathan

Tim Spalding wrote:
> After releasing all our series, award prizes and such, we've now
> released all our covers. See the blog:
>
> http://www.librarything.com/blog/2008/08/million-free-covers-from-librarything.php
>
> I really hope this—or more probably what comes of this—ends the
> selling of covers to libraries. Data companies are great. People want
> data more and more every year. There are a million ways of making
> money off selling to this need. (We're no Bowker, but we too make some
> money off selling data.) But covers need to drop out the bottom and
> become free.
>
> Tim
>
>   

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Jonathan Rochkind
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The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
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