bibfetch: a cover id is the edition's own, and a fetch has a deadline

Review id 3 on catena#2.

P0: Record.cover_id came from the search index's cover_i, the cover
chosen for the whole work, and the index is asked first, so cover()
fell back to another edition's image (Penguin War and Peace,
9780140447934, got Standard Ebooks' Maude cover 12621906). cover_i is
no longer asked for or read; cover_id is the first positive id in the
edition record's covers, or None. An ISBN request that fails, as
opposed to a 404, now ends the fetch with that failure instead of
going on to the cover id.

Redirects go only over HTTPS on the standard port to
covers.openlibrary.org, archive.org or a host under archive.org, and
never to an address by number; the covers store the fetch began at is
still allowed.

The 1 KB size floor is gone. With default=false a missing cover is a
404, and the stand-in without it is a 43-byte GIF the media type check
refuses, so the floor could only drop real Small covers.

Covers.deadline (DEADLINE, two minutes) bounds a whole fetch: every
address, attempt, redirect, body and wait. It starts once the fetch
holds the process lock. The timeout test no longer times a span that
includes the lock wait.

crates/bibfetch/README.md

@@ -118,14 +118,21 @@ writes the image. The thirteen-digit form is asked first and the ten-digit
 form second, because a book is often filed under only one of them; an ISBN
 whose check digit is wrong is asked about as written, since converting it
 would give another book's number. `--cover-id` names an Open Library cover id
-to ask by last, which is what the `cover_id` field of a lookup record holds.
+to ask by last, which is what the `cover_id` field of a lookup record holds:
+the first cover in Open Library's record of that edition, never the cover its
+index picked for the whole work, which is often another edition's. The cover
+id is asked only when every form of the ISBN asked was answered with no cover; if
+asking by ISBN failed, that failure is the result.
 
 What comes back is checked before it is written: a JPEG or PNG by its bytes
-as well as by what the server says, between one kilobyte (Open Library's
+as well as by what the server says, no larger than ten megabytes, reached in at
-stand-in for a missing cover is smaller) and ten megabytes, reached in at most
+most three redirects, each over HTTPS to `covers.openlibrary.org`,
-three redirects that never leave HTTPS. One request is made at a time, and a
+`archive.org` or a host under `archive.org`, and never to an address by number.
-`429` or `503` is waited out for as long as its `Retry-After` says, up to a
+One request is made at a time, a `429` or `503` is waited out for as long as
-minute.
+its `Retry-After` says, up to a minute, and the whole fetch, every attempt and
+redirect included, stops after two minutes. The two minutes start once it is
+the fetch's turn, so a fetch queued behind others in the same process can wait
+that long again first.
 
 | Option | Effect |
 |---|---|

crates/bibfetch/src/cover.rs

@@ -4,16 +4,18 @@
 //! `covers.openlibrary.org`, and answers by ISBN or by the cover's own id. An
 //! ISBN is asked in its thirteen-digit form first and its ten-digit form
 //! second, because a book is often filed under only one of them; the cover id
-//! a record already named is asked last, since it may be the cover of another
+//! of the edition's record is asked last, and only when every form of the
-//! edition of the work rather than of this one.
+//! ISBN asked was answered and had none.
 //!
 //! What comes back is checked before it is trusted, because it is written to
 //! disk next to a book: an image (JPEG or PNG, by what the bytes are as well
 //! as what the server says), no larger than [`MAX_BYTES`], reached in at most
-//! [`MAX_REDIRECTS`] redirects that never leave HTTPS.
+//! [`MAX_REDIRECTS`] redirects, each over HTTPS to Open Library's covers or
+//! the Internet Archive, all within [`DEADLINE`].
 
+use std::net::IpAddr;
 use std::sync::Mutex;
-use std::time::Duration;
+use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
 
 use crate::Error;
 
@@ -24,15 +26,26 @@ pub const OPEN_LIBRARY_COVERS: &str = "https://covers.openlibrary.org";
 /// hundred kilobytes; ten megabytes is something that is not a cover.
 pub const MAX_BYTES: u64 = 10 * 1024 * 1024;
 
-/// The smallest cover accepted. Open Library's stand-in for a missing cover
-/// is a one-pixel image of a few dozen bytes, and nothing under a kilobyte
-/// is a picture of a book.
-pub const MIN_BYTES: usize = 1024;
-
 /// How many redirects to follow. A cover is served from the Internet
 /// Archive two redirects away from the address asked.
 pub const MAX_REDIRECTS: u32 = 3;
 
+/// The hosts a redirect may lead to, besides the covers store it began at.
+/// Today a cover goes `covers.openlibrary.org`, then `archive.org`, then an
+/// `ia*.us.archive.org` storage node.
+const REDIRECT_HOSTS: [&str; 2] = ["covers.openlibrary.org", "archive.org"];
+
+/// How long one fetch may take, start to finish: every address, attempt,
+/// redirect, body and wait between attempts. One fetch runs at a time in a
+/// process, and the clock starts once it is this fetch's turn, so time spent
+/// waiting behind another fetch is not counted; a caller sharing the process
+/// with other fetches can wait that long again before this one begins.
+///
+/// Without it the worst case at the defaults ran to about eighteen minutes:
+/// three addresses, three attempts, up to four requests an attempt at the
+/// agent's timeout each, and a minute's `Retry-After` between attempts.
+pub const DEADLINE: Duration = Duration::from_secs(120);
+
 /// The longest a `Retry-After` is honoured for. A register asking for more
 /// than this is better treated as down than waited on.
 const MAX_WAIT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(60);
@@ -110,6 +123,10 @@ pub struct Covers {
     pub base: String,
     /// How many times to ask an address that is unreachable or busy.
     pub attempts: u32,
+    /// How long the whole fetch may take; [`DEADLINE`] by default. Each
+    /// request is given whatever is left of it, or the agent's own timeout
+    /// if that is shorter, and a wait that would run past it is not waited.
+    pub deadline: Duration,
 }
 
 impl Default for Covers {
@@ -117,6 +134,7 @@ impl Default for Covers {
         Self {
             base: OPEN_LIBRARY_COVERS.to_string(),
             attempts: crate::ATTEMPTS,
+            deadline: DEADLINE,
         }
     }
 }
@@ -140,9 +158,10 @@ impl Covers {
     ///
     /// The ISBN may be either form, with or without hyphens. One whose check
     /// digit is wrong is asked about as written and not converted, since a
-    /// converted one would be another book's number. A failure at one address
+    /// converted one would be another book's number. A failure at one form
-    /// does not stop the next being asked; it is returned only when no
+    /// of the ISBN does not stop the other being asked, but it does stop the
-    /// address gave a cover.
+    /// cover id being asked: the ISBN's own cover may exist, and is the one
+    /// wanted. The failure is returned when no ISBN form gave a cover.
     pub fn fetch(
         &self,
         agent: &ureq::Agent,
@@ -162,69 +181,99 @@ impl Covers {
         };
 
         let letter = size.letter();
-        let mut addresses: Vec<String> = forms
+        let addresses: Vec<String> = forms
             .iter()
             .map(|form| format!("{}/b/isbn/{form}-{letter}.jpg?default=false", self.base))
             .collect();
-        if let Some(id) = cover_id {
-            addresses.push(format!(
-                "{}/b/id/{id}-{letter}.jpg?default=false",
-                self.base
-            ));
-        }
 
         let _turn = ONE_AT_A_TIME
             .lock()
             .unwrap_or_else(|held| held.into_inner());
+        // From here, not from the call: waiting for the lock is time another
+        // fetch spent, and counting it would let a busy process starve this
+        // one of the time its own requests need.
+        let until = Instant::now() + self.deadline;
         let mut failed = None;
-        for address in addresses {
+        for address in &addresses {
-            match self.ask(agent, &address) {
+            match self.ask(agent, address, until) {
                 Ok(Answer::Image(cover)) => return Ok(Some(cover)),
                 Ok(Answer::Absent) => {}
                 Err(why) => failed = Some(why),
             }
         }
-        match failed {
+        if let Some(why) = failed {
-            Some(why) => Err(why),
+            return Err(why);
-            None => Ok(None),
+        }
+        let Some(id) = cover_id else {
+            return Ok(None);
+        };
+        let address = format!("{}/b/id/{id}-{letter}.jpg?default=false", self.base);
+        match self.ask(agent, &address, until)? {
+            Answer::Image(cover) => Ok(Some(cover)),
+            Answer::Absent => Ok(None),
         }
     }
 
     /// Ask one address, again while it is busy or unreachable.
     ///
     /// Waits as long as a `Retry-After` says, up to a minute, or else a
-    /// second and then two, the same as a record lookup does.
+    /// second and then two, the same as a record lookup does; but not past
-    fn ask(&self, agent: &ureq::Agent, address: &str) -> Result<Answer, Error> {
+    /// `until`, where a wait that would end later is given up at once.
+    fn ask(&self, agent: &ureq::Agent, address: &str, until: Instant) -> Result<Answer, Error> {
         let attempts = self.attempts.max(1);
         let mut last = Error::Unreachable("no attempt was made".into());
         for attempt in 0..attempts {
-            match self.once(agent, address) {
+            match self.once(agent, address, until) {
                 Ok(answer) => return Ok(answer),
                 Err(Fault::Final(why)) => return Err(why),
                 Err(Fault::Again(why, wait)) => {
-                    last = why;
                     if attempt + 1 < attempts {
-                        std::thread::sleep(
+                        let wait = wait.unwrap_or(Duration::from_secs(1 << attempt.min(5)));
-                            wait.unwrap_or(Duration::from_secs(1 << attempt.min(5))),
+                        if Instant::now() + wait >= until {
-                        );
+                            return Err(self.out_of_time(address, &why));
+                        }
+                        std::thread::sleep(wait);
                     }
+                    last = why;
                 }
             }
         }
         Err(last)
     }
 
+    fn out_of_time(&self, address: &str, after: &Error) -> Error {
+        Error::Unreachable(format!(
+            "{address}: past the {:?} deadline, after {after}",
+            self.deadline
+        ))
+    }
+
     /// One attempt at an address, following its redirects by hand so that
     /// each one can be checked before it is followed.
-    fn once(&self, agent: &ureq::Agent, address: &str) -> Result<Answer, Fault> {
+    fn once(&self, agent: &ureq::Agent, address: &str, until: Instant) -> Result<Answer, Fault> {
         let mut at = address.to_string();
         let mut hops = 0;
         loop {
+            // The agent's timeout bounds one request, body included; what is
+            // left of the deadline bounds it too, so no request outlives it.
+            let left = until.saturating_duration_since(Instant::now());
+            if left.is_zero() {
+                return Err(Fault::Final(Error::Unreachable(format!(
+                    "{at}: past the {:?} deadline",
+                    self.deadline
+                ))));
+            }
+            let timeout = agent
+                .config()
+                .timeouts()
+                .global
+                .map_or(left, |own| own.min(left));
             let response = agent
                 .get(&at)
                 .config()
                 .max_redirects(0)
                 .http_status_as_error(false)
+                .timeout_global(Some(timeout))
                 .build()
                 .call()
                 .map_err(|e| Fault::Again(Error::Unreachable(format!("{at}: {e}")), None))?;
@@ -250,9 +299,10 @@ impl Covers {
                         ))));
                     }
                     let next = resolve(&at, &location);
-                    if !next.starts_with("https://") && origin(&next) != origin(&self.base) {
+                    if !may_follow(&next, &self.base) {
                         return Err(Fault::Final(Error::Unreachable(format!(
-                            "{at}: refused a redirect off HTTPS, to {next}"
+                            "{at}: refused a redirect to {next}, which is not HTTPS to \
+Open Library's covers or the Internet Archive"
                         ))));
                     }
                     at = next;
@@ -338,9 +388,15 @@ fn read(mut response: ureq::http::Response<ureq::Body>, address: &str) -> Result
             "{address}: said {media_type} but is not one"
         )));
     }
-    if bytes.len() < MIN_BYTES {
+    // No floor on the size. Open Library's stand-in for a missing cover is a
-        return Ok(Answer::Absent);
+    // 43-byte, one-pixel GIF, and it serves that only when `default=false`
-    }
+    // is left off: with it, as every address here has it, a missing cover is
+    // a 404, for an ISBN and for a cover id alike (checked 2026-11-13). The
+    // stand-in would fail the media type check above in any case, being a
+    // GIF. So a floor could only drop real covers, and real Small ones sit
+    // close to any floor worth having: thumbnails measured 1032 to 2148
+    // bytes, the smallest eight bytes over a kilobyte floor, so smaller ones
+    // not yet seen would have been dropped.
     Ok(Answer::Image(Cover {
         bytes,
         media_type,
@@ -357,6 +413,44 @@ fn header(response: &ureq::http::Response<ureq::Body>, name: &str) -> Option<Str
         .map(str::to_string)
 }
 
+/// Whether a redirect may be followed to `next`.
+///
+/// Back to the covers store the fetch began at, which the caller chose, or
+/// else over HTTPS on the standard port to [`REDIRECT_HOSTS`] or a host under
+/// `archive.org`, named and not numbered. A redirect is the server choosing
+/// where this process connects next, and an address by number, or a host
+/// that is neither Open Library nor the Archive, is somewhere a compromised
+/// or mistaken redirect could reach a service on the local network.
+fn may_follow(next: &str, base: &str) -> bool {
+    if origin(next).is_some() && origin(next) == origin(base) {
+        return true;
+    }
+    // The same parser the request is made with, so the host checked is the
+    // host connected to.
+    let Ok(uri) = next.parse::<ureq::http::Uri>() else {
+        return false;
+    };
+    if uri.scheme_str() != Some("https") || uri.port_u16().is_some_and(|port| port != 443) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    let Some(authority) = uri.authority() else {
+        return false;
+    };
+    if authority.as_str().contains('@') {
+        return false;
+    }
+    let host = authority.host().to_ascii_lowercase();
+    if host
+        .trim_start_matches('[')
+        .trim_end_matches(']')
+        .parse::<IpAddr>()
+        .is_ok()
+    {
+        return false;
+    }
+    REDIRECT_HOSTS.contains(&host.as_str()) || host.ends_with(".archive.org")
+}
+
 /// `scheme://host:port` of an absolute URL.
 fn origin(url: &str) -> Option<&str> {
     let after = url.find("://")? + 3;
@@ -508,6 +602,7 @@ mod tests {
             Covers {
                 base: self.base.clone(),
                 attempts: 3,
+                deadline: DEADLINE,
             }
         }
 
@@ -639,13 +734,17 @@ mod tests {
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn a_placeholder_sized_image_is_no_cover() {
+    fn open_librarys_stand_in_is_never_a_cover() {
-        let stub = Stub::start(|_, _| Reply::image("image/jpeg", jpeg(MIN_BYTES - 1)));
+        // What Open Library serves for a missing cover when `default=false`
-        let found = stub
+        // is left off: a one-pixel GIF89a, 43 bytes.
+        let mut gif = b"GIF89a\x01\x00\x01\x00".to_vec();
+        gif.resize(43, 0);
+        let stub = Stub::start(move |_, _| Reply::image("image/gif", gif.clone()));
+        let failed = stub
             .covers()
-            .fetch(&agent(), "9780306406157", None, CoverSize::Large)
+            .fetch(&agent(), "9780306406157", None, CoverSize::Small)
-            .expect("an answer");
+            .expect_err("not a cover");
-        assert_eq!(found, None);
+        assert!(matches!(failed, Error::Shape(_)), "{failed:?}");
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -819,11 +918,43 @@ mod tests {
             .fetch(&agent(), "9780306406157", None, CoverSize::Large)
             .expect_err("plain http elsewhere");
         assert!(
-            matches!(&failed, Error::Unreachable(why) if why.contains("off HTTPS")),
+            matches!(&failed, Error::Unreachable(why) if why.contains("refused")),
             "{failed:?}"
         );
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn redirects_go_only_to_open_library_and_the_archive_over_https() {
+        let base = "https://covers.openlibrary.org";
+        for next in [
+            "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/1-L.jpg",
+            "https://archive.org/download/l_covers_0001/x.jpg",
+            "https://ia800100.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?f=1",
+            "https://ARCHIVE.org/x",
+            "https://archive.org:443/x",
+        ] {
+            assert!(may_follow(next, base), "{next}");
+        }
+        for next in [
+            "http://archive.org/x",
+            "https://archive.org:8443/x",
+            "https://evilarchive.org/x",
+            "https://archive.org.example/x",
+            "https://openlibrary.org.example/x",
+            "https://[email protected]/x",
+            "https://127.0.0.1/x",
+            "https://10.7.1.5/x",
+            "https://[::1]/x",
+            "https://example.com/x",
+            "ftp://archive.org/x",
+        ] {
+            assert!(!may_follow(next, base), "{next}");
+        }
+        // The store it began at, whatever it is, for a test or a mirror.
+        assert!(may_follow("http://127.0.0.1:9/x", "http://127.0.0.1:9"));
+        assert!(!may_follow("http://127.0.0.1:10/x", "http://127.0.0.1:9"));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn a_register_that_does_not_answer_in_time_is_unreachable() {
         let stub = Stub::start(|_, _| Reply {
@@ -839,15 +970,126 @@ mod tests {
             attempts: 1,
             ..stub.covers()
         };
-        let started = std::time::Instant::now();
+        // No stopwatch: one started here would count the wait for the
+        // process lock, which other tests hold. The failure is proof enough,
+        // since a reply waited out is a cover.
         let failed = covers
             .fetch(&agent, "9780306406157", None, CoverSize::Large)
             .expect_err("timed out");
         assert!(matches!(failed, Error::Unreachable(_)), "{failed:?}");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_slow_answer_is_cut_at_the_deadline() {
+        let stub = Stub::start(|_, _| Reply {
+            delay: Duration::from_secs(10),
+            ..Reply::image("image/jpeg", jpeg(2048))
+        });
+        // The agent would wait the reply out; the deadline will not.
+        let agent = crate::ask::Ask {
+            timeout: Duration::from_secs(30),
+            ..Default::default()
+        }
+        .agent();
+        let covers = Covers {
+            attempts: 3,
+            deadline: Duration::from_millis(500),
+            ..stub.covers()
+        };
+        let found = covers
+            .fetch(&agent, "9780306406157", Some(42), CoverSize::Large)
+            .map(|cover| cover.map(|cover| cover.url));
+        assert!(matches!(found, Err(Error::Unreachable(_))), "{found:?}");
+        // Out of time after the first request: no second attempt, no other
+        // form of the ISBN, no cover id.
+        assert_eq!(stub.asked(), [ISBN13]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_wait_past_the_deadline_is_not_waited() {
+        let stub = Stub::start(|_, _| Reply::status(429).header("Retry-After", "30"));
+        let covers = Covers {
+            attempts: 3,
+            deadline: Duration::from_secs(5),
+            ..stub.covers()
+        };
+        let started = Instant::now();
+        let failed = covers
+            .fetch(&agent(), "9780306406157", None, CoverSize::Large)
+            .expect_err("busy");
         assert!(
-            started.elapsed() < Duration::from_secs(3),
+            matches!(&failed, Error::Unreachable(why) if why.contains("deadline")),
-            "waited the reply out"
+            "{failed:?}"
         );
+        // Each form asked once and given up on, not waited on for 30 s. The
+        // bound is loose because it includes any wait for the process lock.
+        assert_eq!(stub.asked(), [ISBN13, ISBN10]);
+        assert!(
+            started.elapsed() < Duration::from_secs(25),
+            "{:?}",
+            started.elapsed()
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_isbn_that_fails_stops_the_cover_id_being_asked() {
+        // The ISBN-13 address fails (not a 404), the ISBN-10 has none, and
+        // the cover id has an image that might be another edition's.
+        let stub = Stub::start(|_, path| match path {
+            ISBN13 => Reply::status(500),
+            "/b/id/42-L.jpg?default=false" => Reply::image("image/jpeg", jpeg(4096)),
+            _ => Reply::status(404),
+        });
+        let covers = Covers {
+            attempts: 1,
+            ..stub.covers()
+        };
+        // Only the address of anything found, so a failure prints short.
+        let found = covers
+            .fetch(&agent(), "9780306406157", Some(42), CoverSize::Large)
+            .map(|cover| cover.map(|cover| cover.url));
+        assert!(matches!(found, Err(Error::Unreachable(_))), "{found:?}");
+        assert_eq!(stub.asked(), [ISBN13, ISBN10]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_redirect_to_an_address_by_number_is_refused() {
+        // A listener standing in for a service on the LAN; it only counts.
+        let lan = TcpListener::bind("127.0.0.1:0").expect("a loopback port");
+        let port = lan.local_addr().expect("an address").port();
+        let reached = Arc::new(Mutex::new(0u32));
+        let count = Arc::clone(&reached);
+        std::thread::spawn(move || {
+            for stream in lan.incoming() {
+                if stream.is_ok() {
+                    *count.lock().expect("a lock") += 1;
+                }
+            }
+        });
+        let stub =
+            Stub::start(move |_, _| Reply::redirect(format!("https://127.0.0.1:{port}/admin")));
+        let failed = stub
+            .covers()
+            .fetch(&agent(), "9780306406157", None, CoverSize::Large)
+            .expect_err("refused");
+        assert!(
+            matches!(&failed, Error::Unreachable(why) if why.contains("refused")),
+            "{failed:?}"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(*reached.lock().expect("a lock"), 0);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_small_thumbnail_is_a_cover() {
+        // Real Small covers run from about a kilobyte; one under it is
+        // still a cover.
+        let stub = Stub::start(|_, _| Reply::image("image/jpeg", jpeg(700)));
+        let cover = stub
+            .covers()
+            .fetch(&agent(), "9780306406157", None, CoverSize::Small)
+            .expect("an answer")
+            .expect("a cover");
+        assert_eq!(cover.bytes.len(), 700);
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -874,7 +1116,7 @@ mod tests {
             .expect("an answer")
             .expect("a cover");
         assert_eq!(cover.media_type, "image/jpeg");
-        assert!(cover.bytes.len() > MIN_BYTES);
+        assert!(cover.bytes.len() > 1024);
         assert!(cover.url.starts_with(OPEN_LIBRARY_COVERS));
     }
 }

crates/bibfetch/src/lib.rs

@@ -76,9 +76,11 @@ pub struct Record {
     /// How many pages the register says it has.
     #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
     pub pages: Option<u32>,
-    /// The id Open Library files a cover of this book under, for
+    /// The first cover id in Open Library's record of this edition, for
-    /// [`cover()`] to ask by when the ISBN has none. Its index names the
+    /// [`cover()`] to ask by when the ISBN has none. Taken from the edition
-    /// cover of the work, which may be another edition's.
+    /// record only, never from the index's cover for the work, which is
+    /// often another edition's; `None` when the edition names no cover or
+    /// the lookup stopped before asking for the edition record.
     #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
     pub cover_id: Option<u64>,
 }

crates/bibfetch/src/source.rs

@@ -85,10 +85,13 @@ impl Source {
             }
             // `fields` or the index answers with a handful of defaults and
             // keeps the rest, which is how a language it holds went unread.
+            // Not `cover_i`: that is the cover chosen for the whole work, and
+            // on a work with hundreds of editions it is usually another
+            // edition's, in another translation or language.
             Source::OpenLibrarySearch => format!(
                 "https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=isbn:{}\
 &fields=title,subtitle,author_name,first_publish_year,publisher,language,subject,\
-number_of_pages_median,cover_i&limit=1",
+number_of_pages_median&limit=1",
                 encode(id)
             ),
             Source::GoogleBooks => format!(
@@ -278,6 +281,7 @@ fn open_library(id: &str, kind: &str, body: &str) -> Result<Record, Error> {
         .find_map(|l| l.key.rsplit('/').next().map(str::to_string))
         .filter(|l| !l.is_empty());
     record.pages = book.number_of_pages;
+    // The edition's own cover, and the only place a cover id is taken from.
     record.cover_id = book
         .covers
         .into_iter()
@@ -309,8 +313,6 @@ struct SearchDoc {
     subject: Vec<String>,
     #[serde(rename = "number_of_pages_median", default)]
     pages: Option<u32>,
-    #[serde(default)]
-    cover_i: Option<i64>,
 }
 
 /// How many of a work's subject headings are worth carrying.
@@ -342,10 +344,6 @@ fn open_library_search(id: &str, kind: &str, body: &str) -> Result<Record, Error
     record.subjects = doc.subject;
     record.subjects.truncate(SUBJECT_LIMIT);
     record.pages = doc.pages;
-    record.cover_id = doc
-        .cover_i
-        .and_then(|id| u64::try_from(id).ok())
-        .filter(|id| *id > 0);
     Ok(record)
 }
 
@@ -542,18 +540,45 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(record.cover_id, Some(1162784));
         let record = open_library("1", "isbn", r#"{"title":"A"}"#).expect("a record");
         assert_eq!(record.cover_id, None);
-
-        let record = open_library_search("1", "isbn", r#"{"docs":[{"title":"A","cover_i":2468}]}"#)
-            .expect("a record");
-        assert_eq!(record.cover_id, Some(2468));
-        let record = open_library_search("1", "isbn", r#"{"docs":[{"title":"A","cover_i":-1}]}"#)
-            .expect("a record");
-        assert_eq!(record.cover_id, None);
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn the_index_is_asked_for_the_cover_id() {
+    fn the_cover_id_is_the_editions_and_not_the_works() {
-        assert!(Source::OpenLibrarySearch.url("1").contains("cover_i"));
+        // ISBN 9780140447934 today: the index (asked first) names the work's
+        // cover; the edition record has none. Merged as `ask::lookup` merges.
+        let mut kept = open_library_search(
+            "9780140447934",
+            "isbn",
+            r#"{"docs":[{"title":"War and Peace","cover_i":12621906}]}"#,
+        )
+        .expect("a record");
+        let edition = open_library("9780140447934", "isbn", r#"{"title":"War and Peace"}"#)
+            .expect("a record");
+        kept.fill_from(edition);
+        // Cover 12621906 is OL34941467M, Standard Ebooks' Maude translation.
+        assert_eq!(kept.cover_id, None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_edition_with_no_covers_gives_no_cover_id() {
+        let index = r#"{"docs":[{"title":"War and Peace","cover_i":12621906}]}"#;
+        // `lookup` often stops at the index, before the edition is asked.
+        let alone = open_library_search("9780140447934", "isbn", index).expect("a record");
+        assert_eq!(alone.cover_id, None);
+        // An edition whose only cover was deleted, and one with an empty list.
+        for edition in [
+            r#"{"title":"War and Peace","covers":[-1]}"#,
+            r#"{"title":"War and Peace","covers":[]}"#,
+        ] {
+            let mut kept = open_library_search("9780140447934", "isbn", index).expect("a record");
+            kept.fill_from(open_library("9780140447934", "isbn", edition).expect("a record"));
+            assert_eq!(kept.cover_id, None, "{edition}");
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_index_is_not_asked_for_the_works_cover() {
+        assert!(!Source::OpenLibrarySearch.url("1").contains("cover_i"));
     }
 
     #[test]