This is a brief list of useful data sources for bookcamp:
- LibraryThing API: ISBNs, titles and languages. (Requires LT membership, developer key.)
- LibraryThing Web Services: for querying LT’s ‘common knowledge’ data (ditto).
- LibraryThing Covers: 1m+ covers (ditto)
- Amazon Associates Web Service: covers, bookdata, reviews (requires AWS account).
- xISBN: Worldcat’s ISBN service
- isbndb – another ISBN database, also includes price comparison.
- Google Book Search API: book previews, text search and bookdata.
- BookMooch API – find books for free.
- DBpedia: for querying Wikipedia.
- Bkkeepr API: very limited access to user’s reading data. Ask if you want more!
There’s also lots of texts available for free at the following locations: