nice!  yeah, I was thinking of something along those lines.
…adam

On Nov 7, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Chris Fitzpatrick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I think you can do this all with JS or Coffeescript.
>
> Here's a fiddle :
>
> http://jsfiddle.net/chrisfitzpat/t69Xs/
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>
>
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> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Daryl Grenz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Powell's Books provides an API (http://api.powells.com/stable) and direct
>> links to their book covers by ISBN13 only.
>> Regarding the limit on daily use of the Google Books API, I think from
>> when I used it before that if you access cover links through the Dynamic
>> Links API (https://developers.google.com/books/docs/dynamic-links) there
>> is no daily limit.
>> - Daryl
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:13:35 +0000
>>> From: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] display book covers
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Anyone have some good resources about tools for gathering book cover
>> images?  I'm building that into our next catalog update, which uses
>> Blacklight, but I'm not necessarily looking for Rails-only approaches.  My
>> questions are more general:
>>>
>>> What sources are out there?  (ex. Google Books, amazon)
>>>
>>> Making it work?
>>> I'm trying out Google Books at the moment, just making a call to their
>> API.  This can be asynchronously and loaded after the rest of the page, or
>> cached, perhaps even store the url in solr or a database table?
>>>
>>> Tools?
>>> I am trying out a Google Books gem[1], which is just a wrapper for the
>> api.
>>>
>>> Other thoughts?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> …adam
>>>
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>>> [1] https://github.com/zeantsoi/GoogleBooks
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