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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> > <!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 > > >