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Try it Bringing 100 Years of Librarian-Knowledge to Life By At the beta for what it’s calling the Get Ready to Explore In this article, we’ll give you a tour of the Open Library Explorer and teach you how one may take full advantage of its features. You’ll also get a crash course on the 100+ years of library history which led to its innovation and an opportunity to test-drive it for yourself. So let’s get started! What better way to set the stage than by taking a trip down memory lane to the last time you were able to visit your local public library. As you pass the front desk, a friendly librarian scribbles some numbers on a piece of paper which they hand to you and points you towards a relevant section. With the list of library Library photo courtesy of Before you know it, one book gets stuffed under one arm, two more books go under your other arm, and a few more books get positioned securely between your knees. You’re doing the math to see how close you are to your check-out limit. Remember those days? What if you could replicate that same library experience and access it every single day, from the convenience of your web browser? Well, thanks to the new Open Library Explorer, you can experience the joys of a physical library right in your web browser, as well as leverage superpowers which enable you to explore in ways which may have previously been impossible. Before we dive into the bells-and-whistles of the Library Explorer, it’s worth learning how and why such innov...

Open Library is a database of over two million digitized books, including classic and public-domain texts, as well as a growing collection of books of all kinds donated by libraries around the country. Books can be downloaded or read online. Open Library's browser-based reader lets you flip through scanned pages, preserving the experience of a printed book, but keyword-searching in the text is also supported. To find books – fiction or nonfiction, juvenile or adult, on all subjects and in a variety of languages – visit the homepage to get started: Do I need my library card? No, Open Library is publicly available in North Carolina. Can I download books? Yes, most titles can be downloaded in PDF or EPUB format. PDFs are larger, containing scans of each printed page. EPUBs are smaller, text-only versions, but they may contain errors. A link to download Adobe Digital Editions, a free software that reads both formats, is provided when you check out a book. Do I need an account? Public-domain books (older titles) are available without logging in. To check out all other books, you'll need to set up an Open Library account, which allows you to borrow 5 books at a time. How long can I borrow a book? Public-domain books are always available. Other books will be checked out for 14 days (whether you read them online or download them). You do not need to do anything to return a book – your access will expire automatically. If you still need the book, return to Open Library to check it ...

OPEN(2) Linux Programmer's Manual OPEN(2) top open, openat, creat - open and possibly create a file top #include int open(const char * pathname , int flags ); int open(const char * pathname , int flags , mode_t mode ); int creat(const char * pathname , mode_t mode ); int openat(int dirfd , const char * pathname , int flags ); int openat(int dirfd , const char * pathname , int flags , mode_t mode ); /* Documented separately, in int openat2(int dirfd , const char * pathname , const struct open_how * how , size_t size ); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see openat(): Since glibc 2.10: _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L Before glibc 2.10: _ATFILE_SOURCE top The open() system call opens the file specified by pathname. If the specified file does not exist, it may optionally (if O_CREAT is specified in flags) be created by open(). The return value of open() is a file descriptor, a small, nonnegative integer that is an index to an entry in the process's table of open file descriptors. The file descriptor is used in subsequent system calls ( FD_CLOEXEC file descriptor flag described in O_CLOEXEC flag, described below, can be used to change this default. The file offset is set to the beginning of the file (see open() creates a new open file description, an entry in the system-wide table of open files. The open file description records the file offset and the file status flags (see below). A file descriptor is a reference to an open file description; this reference is unaffected i...