get_book

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READ PIPELINE step 1 — DISCOVER. START HERE for any named work or author. Returns the book's AI-generated summary, chapter list, edition metadata, DOI, page counts, IIIF manifest, and the cover image (inline, so you and the user can see the book). LANGUAGE: `language` is what is printed on THIS EDITION's leaves, which is frequently not the language the work was written in. Where they differ the response also carries `work_language`, `text_role` (original / period-translation / modern-translation) and a `translation_note` — read them before describing a passage as the author's own words, because an edition can be a translation of a translation (de Slane's 1863 French Muqaddimah, read in English, is English←French←Arabic). Absent `work_language` means the edition is in the work's own language. Use list_editions to find an original-language witness. The summary is typically a multi-paragraph orientation covering the book's argument, structure, and significance — often answering the question without further searching. Then: get_book_text to read a chapter or page range (step 2), get_quote / get_quotes to lock specific pages with full citation apparatus (step 3). search_within_book locates passages inside this book. MULTI-WORK VOLUMES: where the scans carry running heads, contains_works lists the works the volume ACTUALLY holds with their page spans, taken from the heads the printer put on each leaf. Trust it over the title — collected-works titles routinely name works the volume does not contain, and the volume holding a work often does not name it. If contains_works is absent the scans have no heads to read; status "insufficient-heads" means it was examined and could not be decided. EDITIONS: `editions` says which languages this book can be READ in and how many pages each covers ({ en: 357 } on most books, { en: 357, es: 357 } where a localized edition exists). Pass a code as `lang` to get_quote, get_quotes, get_book_text or search_within_book to read that edition; without it you get English.