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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 > > -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu