support free, legal book repositories

[kaveinthran]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

There are many book and textbooks repositories are there with free, open access, creative commons books. There are no ways to browse and read those seemlssly.

Describe the solution you'd like

a. Collecting those repositories to be linked into the app
b. overtime, repositories with API and crawling capability can allow for a good interface inside the app.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

[pauliyobo]

Hello.
Thank you for the suggestion.
Do you have any repositories in mind?

[kaveinthran]

Here are some that I know https://www.loc.gov/collections/open-access-books/about-this-collection/ https://www.doabooks.org/ https://mitpress.mit.edu/open-access-at-mit-press/books/ https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks https://openstax.org/ https://pressbooks.directory/ https://www.oercommons.org/ https://openstax.org/higher-ed https://libretexts.org/index.html https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ https://www-taylorfrancis-com.libproxy.clemson.edu/ https://bookboon.com/ http://freecomputerbooks.com/ https://merlotx.merlot.org/find/textbooks.html https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=about&uiLanguage=en https://www-cambridge-org.ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/core/what-we-publish/open-access/listing?aggs%5bproductTypes%5d%5bfilters%5d=BOOK&sort=canonical.date:desc https://global.oup.com/academic/open-access/titles/ https://about.jstor.org/librarians/books/open-access-books-jstor/ https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ https://oapen.org/ https://www.springer.com/gp/open-access/books https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/ https://www.openbookpublishers.com/ https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/ https://www.epubbooks.com/ http://www.taylorfrancis.com/search?openAccess=true&_gl=1*1bhloh2*_gcl_au*MTUzODM5OTE4NS4xNzM5NDQxNDE0*_ga*MTQ0OTA1NTU0NS4xNzM5NDQxNDE4*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTczOTc3MzY2OC4yLjAuMTczOTc3MzY2OC42MC4wLjA . https://standardebooks.org/

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On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM Paul Iyobo ***@***.***> wrote: Hello. Thank you for the suggestion. Do you have any repositories in mind? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#305 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AFPTEY4TOOCFV7DF4JHYV732PYES3AVCNFSM6AAAAABXBUT2UOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDMNJZGY2DSMJVG4> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***> [image: pauliyobo]*pauliyobo* left a comment (blindpandas/bookworm#305) <#305 (comment)> Hello. Thank you for the suggestion. Do you have any repositories in mind? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#305 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AFPTEY4TOOCFV7DF4JHYV732PYES3AVCNFSM6AAAAABXBUT2UOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDMNJZGY2DSMJVG4> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

-- Regards, Kavein Kaveinthran (He/Him) Curious, Native Blind Disabled independent Human Rights Advocate email: ***@***.*** ***@***.***> twitter <https://twitter.com/kaveinthran> My LinkedIn <https://my.linkedin.com/in/kaveinthran>

[pauliyobo]

Hello,
The issue I see is that if the repositories themselves do not provide a public API, I did not actually investigate, it will be difficult for us to interact with them. We could do that through web scraping, which however is very likely not a stable approach since we'd break as soon as the related page structure varies.
I think it makes sense to add support for repositories which actually expose an API we can interface with.

[kaveinthran]

yes, I total agree with the approach, web scraping would not be viable,

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On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM Paul Iyobo ***@***.***> wrote: Hello, The issue I see is that if the repositories themselves do not provide a public API, I did not actually investigate, it will be difficult for us to interact with them. We could do that through web scraping, which however is very likely not a stable approach since we'd break as soon as the related page structure varies. I think it makes sense to add support for repositories which actually expose an API we can interface with. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#305 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AFPTEY5IHK7I5UKVA6INH6D2QNLVBAVCNFSM6AAAAABXBUT2UOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDMNRWGE3TSNRRGE> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***> [image: pauliyobo]*pauliyobo* left a comment (blindpandas/bookworm#305) <#305 (comment)> Hello, The issue I see is that if the repositories themselves do not provide a public API, I did not actually investigate, it will be difficult for us to interact with them. We could do that through web scraping, which however is very likely not a stable approach since we'd break as soon as the related page structure varies. I think it makes sense to add support for repositories which actually expose an API we can interface with. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#305 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AFPTEY5IHK7I5UKVA6INH6D2QNLVBAVCNFSM6AAAAABXBUT2UOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDMNRWGE3TSNRRGE> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

-- Regards, Kavein Kaveinthran (He/Him) Curious, Native Blind Disabled independent Human Rights Advocate email: ***@***.*** ***@***.***> twitter <https://twitter.com/kaveinthran> My LinkedIn <https://my.linkedin.com/in/kaveinthran>