Ask HN: Free books database

Posted by aberatiu on Sunday October 20, 2013 @09:30AM
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I'm looking for a (free) book database with name, author, publication year and maybe a small description for every book contained. I need it for a school project. Can anyone help me find one?

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Re:Ask HN: Free books database by m_ram on Sunday October 20, 2013 @03:23PM (#6581116)

Try http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/bibdata

It's free, downloadable, and has records on almost 13 million items. Just going by the API (http://dp.la/dev/wiki/Item_API), it looks like it has the information that you need.

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Re:Ask HN: Free books database by skidoo on Sunday October 20, 2013 @09:33AM (#6579840)

Project Gutenberg is my personal favorite:

http://www.gutenberg.org/

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Re:Ask HN: Free books database by mjhea0 on Sunday October 20, 2013 @09:32AM (#6579837)

check out http://isbndb.com

http://isbndb.com/book/the_wind_up_bird_chronicles

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Re:Ask HN: Free books database by aberatiu on Sunday October 20, 2013 @09:34AM (#6579845)

That's nice (and with the information I want), but I need something that I can download (an .sql, json, xml or even csv)...

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Re:Ask HN: Free books database by gbl08ma on Sunday October 20, 2013 @09:48AM (#6579867)

They have an API: http://isbndb.com/api/v1/docs/intro

According to that API intro page, their databases contain over 1.8 million entries for books alone, so the download would be rather big I think.

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