[FEATURE_REQUEST] Upload Books to OpenLibrary

[PrasannaVenkadesh]

I would like to contribute to OpenLibrary via Openreads. Not all books are in OpenLibrary. If I add a book manually in Openreads, I would like to see a button to upload this book to OpenLibrary, provided I use my login credentials.

[mateusz-bak]

Hello @PrasannaVenkadesh thank you for the suggestion. I looked through the Open Library's API and haven't found anything for submitting books. I'll talk with Open Library team about this and check if we can do this.

[PrasannaVenkadesh]

I believe this wiki of API endpoints should help. But I could see they are also incomplete. For example, I could see endpoint to create a work, but endpoint for creating a edition is missing.

[BoboTiG]

Having this feature would be huge. We would all be able to contribute to OpenLibrary, and thus it would become a Wikipedia/Wiktionary-like project (and we would finally be able to quit Goodreads & co). Coupled to #54, and we have a fully featured "Internet Archive" project :)

[lucastucious]

We would need some additional entries before that, as suggested in #330