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Hi Tim, I think this proposal suffers from the same shortcoming as LibraryThing's widgets, which is that only one per page is allowed. A 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> <!cript 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 >