Collect Data from Websites

### Goal

The goal of this project is to create a dataset of high quality images of the book covers. A list of book titles will be provided, and the goal is collect high quality publicly available images about the book. If this task is done well, we will move onto collecting 10,000 book images.

### Instructions

1. A book list is provided here. Get the top 100 only.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/134.Best_Non_Fiction_no_biographies_

1. For each book, find a **high resolution** book cover photo and rename the file with the book isbn ten number provided to you (the isbn_ten can be found on the book page)


2. Save all the images into this Google Drive folder

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1y93eS58N-A_mfZBVVdNeaGVJJflRTgCl?usp=sharing

3. Once the image is in the folder, mark the row in the excel sheet as completed.

4. Once all the images are found, the job is complete.

# What is a good quality image?

1. High resolution image
2. no white or black background (image only contains the book cover)
3. text is easily visible

### Good Quality Image Example:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_792452-T2/images/I/514qXalERqL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

### Bad Quality Image Example:

https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/md/md31567992664.jpg

# How to find High Quality Images

Right click on an image, open image in new tab, save the image to your computer

1. Google Images — a good website to find book images
2. Goodreads — a good website to find book images
3. Google Books — a good website to find book images
4. Amazon — a good website to find book images