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Openlibrary seems promising, so I'd start there. I immediately thought of NoveList (an EBSCO product, so you'd need special permission and/or contact them directly) or Goodreads (who are apparently not issuing API keys anymore). There are a few Goodreads datasets floating out there from before they stopped supporting the API, though. Sounds interesting, good luck! ---- Kayla Abner (she/her) *Digital Scholarship Librarian* Digital Scholarship and Publishing Services Library, Museums and Press University of Delaware [log in to unmask] Visit https://library.udel.edu/continuity/ for information on library services during the COVID-19 pandemic. [image: University of Delaware] On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 10:14 PM Ray Voelker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I was actually just looking at the open library stuff today a little bit. > > I think they have bulk downloads (and an API) that may include things like > descriptions for works. > > https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45883W.json > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 9:30 PM Ralph LeVan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > I've been asked to provide searching on book blurbs. Specifically, > search > > for books that had blurbs by a particular person. > > > > Anyone have ideas on how to get that information? I'm afraid we're > looking > > at Amazon or scraping the publishers themselves. Any help would be > > appreciated! > > > > Ralph > > > > Ralph LeVan > > OCLC Research, retired > > >