Does Internet Archive Want a Book
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
The Internet Archive accepts donations of books, especially hardcover books, for the possibility of scanning them in and being made available (in general) at the Open Library site. Several major sources provide donations of books by the thousand to the Archive. However, there is always a search for new unique books not already scanned or prepared to be scanned.
The primary API for dealing with knowing if a given book is scanned or waiting to be scanned can be found at https://archive.org/want/. It returns the status for an ISBN number for a book including "We want it", "We have it", as well as "We have it but we could use a second copy" (as well as others).