Love this!

> I hope they can fix this in the long run.

There's nothing AA could "fix" here, this depends entirely on volunteers uploading the books. Your best way to help is to buy the books yourself, use a book scanning service (eg. 1dollarscan), and upload it to ZLib/LibGen.

You can also make a book request on ZLib, that way someone else will be able to do that for you if they want to

In my experience, the availability of anything that isn’t popular or computer nerd-adjacent from before the age of ebooks is very hit and miss on AA.

I found this on open library from 1989, if useful: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5859479W/Steel_construction?...

With a few other options in search:

https://openlibrary.org/search?q=%22steel+construction%22&mo...

Recent publications have not yet passed the test of time.

Children of Time is wonderful! I wish Adrian Tchaikovsky would stop churning them out so quickly and write some more of the quality of Children of Time.

Children of Time is a incredible book. It's the first Sci-Fi book that I read and I enjoyed it thoroughly

Imagine being sanctioned for trying to read books.

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There's a bit of an issue with the linked deployment (in my opinion). In the most zoomed out view you should see the first layer of blocks - very big blocks titled "English language", "French language", "German language". See https://phiresky.github.io/isbn-visualization/ maybe. That makes it a bit easier to read.

The point of the visualization is showing different attributes of books in the space of ISBNs. ISBNs correlate with country, publisher, and release date, that's why using it as a space is useful. You can clearly see the history of when blocks were created, which blocks are rarer than others (present in fewer libraries), and (on the AA hosting) which blocks are more present in AA vs not.

In any case though, yes ISBNs as spatial data are clearly not perfect. Do you have any suggestions that would order the 100 million data points better?

exactly, that map looks like a mess of random blocks...

big blocks are registration groups (countries) and squares inside are registrants (publishers). like a hierarchy. this visualisation helped me to put pieces together - https://vectree.io/c/isbn

Piracy of anything other than live streams of La Liga games... For those, Spain shuts down whole IP ranges and cripples the Internet at large while the game is live.

Very weird.

Only in Spain there are 3k publishers. Argentina has 1k publishers.

And then we have huge amount of books published in spanish by Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Springer, etc.

It's because some books are not categorized as Spanish. They are just under a publisher name. For example, search for "Don Quijote"

Spanish is second largest by people but not by revenue

https://vad.solutions/ipmap/

There are 101,000,000 books visualized. Another way of looking at it is how incredible it is that we can catalogue (and archive) so much of humanity's writing.

That's funny, I came out of it with the opposite impression.

In the section for my native tongue, I zoomed in a few times, here and there, and I only once did I stumble upon an author I knew.

To me, writing a book feels like such a monumental endeavor that I find it hard to fathom the amount of collective effort that it took to write all this, especially considering how most of these works are almost forgotten by now (something something power law).