On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 02:05:06PM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Actually, in order to deX-Y it in case anyone can offer any help, it > is more like "I want an index of all the books which have ever been > written/published" in order to read all of them ;-)
First of all, you will not achieve this goal. It is not possible for a human to read every book that has ever been written. You'll die before you can even finish a tiny fraction of them. So, let's say you have a more realistic goal: you want a list of all the books written by Charles Dickens. I tried to figure out how to get this out of archive.org but it looks like their documentation doesn't match their web page. I started at <https://archive.org/developers/simplelists.html> which shows how to get a list of "items" which all share a common "parent". I figure an author might be a reasonable parent. So then the next question is how to get the author ID for Charles Dickens. Next I went to <https://archive.org/developers/tutorial-find-identifier-item.html> which tells me I should perform a search on their front page, and then on the result page, click something called "Media List". This is where it all falls apart for me. I can't find a "Media List" thing to click on. The documentation also mentions an "ABOUT" that I should be able to click on to get an Identifier. Well, that's not a thing I could find either. There's an ABOUT link in the top menu bar, which goes to <https://archive.org/about/> which is clearly not what the documentation was talking about. All this is far too much of my time wasted trying to help some random person with an off-topic question on debian-user, so... good luck.
