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Open Library: Benefits and Signup Guide

Open Library is a universal catalog that allows users to search for and contribute book metadata. It links to WorldCat to help users find books available at local libraries. Creating a free Open Library account allows users to borrow books, edit book data, and personalize their experience by creating reading lists, notes, and tracking reading statistics. To sign up, users enter a username, password, and email on the Open Library website.

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Open Library: Benefits and Signup Guide

Open Library is a universal catalog that allows users to search for and contribute book metadata. It links to WorldCat to help users find books available at local libraries. Creating a free Open Library account allows users to borrow books, edit book data, and personalize their experience by creating reading lists, notes, and tracking reading statistics. To sign up, users enter a username, password, and email on the Open Library website.

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How does Open Library work with WorldCat?

Open Library and WorldCat are both catalogs of book metadata. Open Library is an open source universal
catalog that anyone can edit. Open Library links to WorldCat to help you find a book you can borrow from
a library near you for any editions we have either an ISBN or an OCLC identifier for.

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What are the benefits of an Open Library account?

Open Library is free and open to anyone. Some features require that you have an Open Library account.

Check-out a book
You can borrow books from the Internet Archive collections.

Contribute to Open Library


Open Library is a community initiative to build a robust, universal book catalog. Anyone with an Open
Library account can add or edit data about books and authors.

Personalize your Open Library experience


We are always adding new functionality to Open Library. Some of the things you can do to make your
experience more personal include the ability to create Reading Lists, Book Notes, a public profile, and the
compilation of personal statistics about your reading. You can also import and export data about your
reading with other book services.

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How do I sign up for Open Library?

To create your Open Library account, click the “sign up” link at the top right corner of our home page,
[Link]. You will be prompted to enter the following information:

 Username
 Password
 Email address

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