Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?

Re:Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? by DaSexiestAlive on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @01:38AM (#44177542)

Mebbe easier to just search Amazon or Goodreads. Like site:amazon.ca <query words> as someone has mentioned below.

Every book has an ISBN 10 or 13 digit ISBN number to identify them. Unless it's some self-pub/amateur-hour situation by some paranoid prepper living in a faraday-cage-protected cage in Arkansas or Florida it's likely a publication with a title, an author and an ISBN number.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? by pigeons on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @02:45AM (#44177831)

What about pre-1970 books?

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Re:Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? by trollbridge on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @09:54AM (#44180775)

A self-pub amateur-hour book printed by a paranoid prepper living in a faraday cage is exactly the type of book I'd probably enjoy reading, but I doubt these exist anymore.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? by pigeons on Thursday June 05, 2025 @01:49AM (#44188661)

I know, remember Loopanics?

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