It seems like we need to trigger another import -- we only have 491 of their 1,000! But you can search Standard Ebooks books in Open Library. Here they are sorted by how many people have added them to their reading log: https://openlibrary.org/search?q=id_standard_ebooks%3A%2A&mo...

Or by rating: https://openlibrary.org/search?q=id_standard_ebooks%3A%2A&mo...

Or by first published! https://openlibrary.org/search?q=id_standard_ebooks%3A%2A&mo...

I created an issue to kick off another import: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/9372

You can use the openlibrary.org API to get the popularity (want to reads, rating counts, reviews) to get you started.

I was gonna comment on the sorting being less than ideal too. Only sort by release date (not publication date), author, ease, and length. Can't even sort by title.

Gutenberg.org is reporting the number of downloads; can't this be used?

Are these two organizations otherwise not on friendly terms, and able to exchange ebooks?

Their tech stack is essentially a really weird really opinionated custom static site generator that makes improvements difficult. The build process is slow and troublesome.

I talked with them about adding an index of authors, and were open to the idea. I put probably 5 hours into getting it running correctly and figuring out how to get it to work. They then were at the time unwilling to restructure their data into a way that made it feasible due to how they have books are structured for multiple authors.

I've worked on hundreds of PHP apps over the last 20 years, and it's frankly one of the weirdest. It could benefit from even just a little SQLite db or something.