Re: Linking to mass digitized books from library catalogs: one month later

From: Tim Spalding <tim_at_nyob> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:53:25 -0400 To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu

> Tim Spalding at LibraryThing developed a bookmarklet to harvest GBS
> URLs.[5] The bookmarklet collected over 253,000 URLs in about a day
> before Tim suspended the effort.[6]

We're had some conversations with Google that suggest a better
solution is on the way, and one that others could use, not just LT. If
it's not, we'll go back to harvesting them and wait for, er, someone
else to suspend us.

Tim