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A big problem with the OpenLibrary website is that there is no way to filter search results for books that are actually in the library, which I find quite odd TBH.

This "Instant Search" doesn't improve on that.

Also, some of the Amazon links are broken for me. They look like https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9798654289605

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I see, let me check if this is a field that's available in the dataset...

Hey, thanks!

Hi markdown, there is a radiobutton on the /search page for only showing `ebooks`.

Do you mean this option doesn't work through the search.json API? If so, can you please make sure we have an issue open https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/new/ch...?

You should be able to add has_fulltext:true to your query (which at least returns a set of books for which there is some full-text in existence:

e.g. http://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=has_fulltext:true%20AND...

Oh wow, I'm not sure how I missed that. Thanks for schooling me. That's really helpful.

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