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  1. Covers of books are now accessible in BookReader two-page mode! e.g. http://bit.ly/2PcNU
  2. Thank goodness we have the presence of mind to pack the coffee robot LAST
  3. Atomic physics... and poetry: http://bit.ly/qOej3
  4. Pushing code to a mere 939 nodes
  5. IA BookReader now supports search terms in book URLs. e.g. "search/blue" in this book http://bit.ly/43unpZ
  6. Charley Chapman RIP. http://bit.ly/r6soR "No form of death is so dreaded by the pilot as falling to the earth in flames."
  7. The life of an average WWI fighter pilot sounds depressing but these aerobatics look fun: http://bit.ly/2S2Gf9 (Rickenbacker not average!)
  8. Check out Toronto area circa 1877 http://bit.ly/3W9DPf vs today http://bit.ly/44lBdG
  9. Random img found using NASA Images iPhone app searching for "turbulence" http://bit.ly/1WOCm
  10. Check out the new free NASA Images iPhone app by third party Tomute http://bit.ly/14az3E App store: http://bit.ly/2PjdKr
  11. Book on photography from 1887 with a lot of interesting figures: http://www.archive.org/stre...
  12. IA bookreader is also being used on the Biodiversity Heritage Library: http://biodiversitylibrary....
  13. IA bookreader code is live on Library of Congress site http://www.read.gov E.g. http://bit.ly/1QgGUD
  14. Great conference glad to meet everyone!! #makebooks
  15. @amandafrench you can put the images anywhere. you implement your own gb.getPageURI function that returns the url for each page index
  16. @amandafrench only need one install of the bookreader files per site (or could even link to IA site)
  17. Internet Archive's online bookreader is open source and can be used with non-IA books. Get the source! http://bit.ly/17uDhH #makebooks
  18. Bill Jansenn: "It took about 50 lines of code" to get IA's bookreader working with PARC's UpLib book system #makebooks
  19. Bill Janssen talking at #makebooks. Showing Xerox PARC projects http://spartag.us/ and http://uplib.parc.com/
  20. George Oates demoing the design (in-progress) for Open Library at the experimental http://upstream.openlibrary... #makebooks