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fails: quotaemail?card?R

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Free tier	Not a file store: the only user upload is cover images capped at 30 MB, and bulk book import requires a privileged account via the JSON import API. Records point at Internet Archive items ra unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	Not a file store: the only user upload is cover images capped at 30 MB, and bulk book import requires a privileged account via the JSON import API. Records point at Internet Archive items ra
Notes	Not a file store: the only user upload is cover images capped at 30 MB, and bulk book import requires a privileged account via the JSON import API. Records point at Internet Archive items ra
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	openlibrary.org/help/faq/editing	Not a file store: the only user upload is cover images capped at 30 MB, and bulk book import requires a privileged account via the JSON import API. Records point at Internet Archive items ra
2026-10-21	docs.openlibrary.org/advanced/data-importing.html	cited as the basis of the rejection: Not a file store: the only user upload is cover images capped at 30 MB, and bulk book import requires a privileged account via the JSON import API. Records point at Internet Archive items ra

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Not a file store: the only user upload is cover images capped at 30 MB, and bulk book import requires a privileged account via the JSON import API. Records point at Internet Archive items ra",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded