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Hi, I think you can do this all with JS or Coffeescript. Here's a fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/chrisfitzpat/t69Xs/ 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 > > > > ______________________________ > > Adam Wead > > Systems and Digital Collections Librarian > > Library + Archives > > Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum > > 216.515.1960 > > [log in to unmask] > > > > [1] https://github.com/zeantsoi/GoogleBooks > > This communication is a confidential and proprietary business > communication. It is intended solely for the use of the designated > recipient(s). If this communication is received in error, please contact > the sender and delete this communication. > >