Search API requests for "readable ebooks only" may also return unreadable books.

[waldenn]

Search API requests for "readable ebooks only" may also return unreadable books.

Evidence / Screenshot (if possible)

Example 1:

• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16992247W/The_genius_of_Teddy_Wilson (not readable)
• https://openlibrary.org/search.json?has_fulltext=true&mode=ebooks&q=%22The%20genius%20of%20Teddy%20Wilson%22& (has_fulltext is true, and the subject and text fields both display: "Accessible book", "Protected DAISY").

Example 2:

• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17548053W/Playing_for_the_Benefit_of_the_Band
• https://openlibrary.org/search.json?has_fulltext=true&mode=ebooks&q=%22Playing%20for%20the%20Benefit%20of%20the%20Band%22&

Proposal & Constraints

The record data of the items seems wrong, but the web-frontend is able to detect that these books are not-readable.
Remove the not-readable ebook results from the API-results, in the same way this is detected for the web interface (not sure how that is done currently).

[mekarpeles]

This is happening because some books are print-disabled only (i.e. only available to print disabled patrons).

I believe you'd like the search API to only return works which have borrowable or readable copies and this is not something we can easily do without completely changing how we index works and editions and their availability within solr.

[waldenn]

Yes. Ok, thanks for the info.

What about adding a "text"-field string to indicate a "disabled-print-only" book? Then one could just filter these books out of the results on client side. The total results would not be correct with the displayed results, but that's a minor issue that could be worked around.