OpenBook WordPress Plugin 3.1 has been released.Thanks to Anand, Terry and all beta testers.

[John Miedema]

OpenBook WordPress Plugin 3.1 has been released.

New to OpenBook? The plugin allows you to easily insert a book cover
image, title, author, and publisher from Open Library. It also creates
links to popular books sites.Users have complete control over the
display through templates. It creates COinS for integration with
applications like the reference manager, Zotero. Librarians can
configure an OpenURL resolver for integration with book records in
their library catalogue.

The plugin is available from the WordPress server:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/openbook-book-data/

Old hack with OpenBook? This version solves the performance problems
of the past. It uses a new API from Open Library, a server-side books
API that fetches all the book data in one call. If that's not fast
enough, you can use the new HTML option to embed the data in your
post. This version also introduces an OpenBook button on the WordPress
visual editor. Click the button to open a form where you can enter
book numbers of various types, specify OpenBook options, and preview
the appearance before inserting it in your post. No need to remember
the shortcode syntax anymore. This version also adds two more
templates to the Settings page.

If you already have the plugin installed, WordPress will notify you of
the available update.

Big thanks to Anand Chitipothu of Open Library for his work on the new
API. Thanks also to the beta testers, especially Terry D. from The
Reading Tub (http://childrens-literacy.com/), whose thorough testing
uncovered bugs before the public release.

More information about OpenBook can be found at the wiki:
http://code.google.com/p/openbook4wordpress/.

[Terry D]

The thanks is all yours John ... you've made life SO much easier for us book lovers!!