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Introducing a new open-source shadow library! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hey everyone! 📚 I’m excited to introduce Bookracy, an open-source shadow library dedicated to preserving and freely sharing knowledge. With a large and growing collection, Bookracy is (annoying) ad-free, non-profit, and lightning-fast ⚡—plus, it’s fully open-source and powered by a passionate community. Whether you're a reader, researcher, or developer, there’s a place for you here. Check out our Reddit, website, GitHub, and hop into our Discord to join the conversation and help grow this movement for open access! 🤝❤️

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Note: Author requested permission to post this.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

ty i forgot to clarify❤

[–] [email protected] 53 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Since you're maintaining a subreddit, you might want to create a comm in lemmy as well. Reddit has already taken down other piracy subs like GenP

[–] [email protected] 25 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

yeah sure a little help on getting started would be great but ill get to it

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

putting aside the obvious glowie talk someone else raised, you should really, really reconsider your opsec. And I mean, really. Using discord to communicate? And spamming Reddit, from a non-dedicated account, no less? Posting PII to justify downtimes? If this gets any traction at all, you're in deep shit. There's a good reason Anna is as anonymous as she is. Cat is out of the bag at this point, I'd recommend shutting it down. You could always continue developing the code for it, the frontend looks pretty good. But please, reconsider if you have the dedication and knowledge it takes to run a shadow library and not be caught.

[–] Tramort 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

My opsec doesn't allow for any Russian projects at all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Fair, at least as long as they're not open-source

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Tried downloading a book and it's just giving an error saying it failed to download. Book name

God i norsk 1 - Tekstbok A1/A2 : norsk for voksne innvandrere

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is giving me Fed vibes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Fed as in?

I'm new to Lenny and wouldn't mind learning the lingo.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago

I think they means it's a federal operation, a honey pot for a government to crack down on piracy.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 hours ago

Thanks, this sounds like a great project! Also, glad dbzer0 was your choice of a community :)

Is there an rogue date where you'll release it to be open source?

Also, seeing you mentioned ad-free, i'm curious about this.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Being “private” and having a discord is like an oxymoron.

I only see a front end on GitHub. Is this just a libgen mirror?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

No its not a libgen mirror - we have our own collections and are torrenting from libgen + zlib aswell - and backend is going to be open sourced in the future once its finished and ready - right now the code is very janky and im too embarassed to release it lol. Theres still alot of additions to do to the backend and once that is done I will release.

We also have a telegram and signal group - the discord was just for my existing community who are primarily discord users aswell

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Revolt.chat is a really solid alternative to Discord

[–] [email protected] 20 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

btw you say “ad free” but I can see an ad in the home

Regarding the download speeds etc, also Anna’s archive was faster time ago but then the more you grow the more you have to take care

So my question is, are there any plans for scaling?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

i said annoying ad-free i should have clarified i meant no popup or redirect ads - and yes there are plans for scaling and we have a few different services like you saw sponsoring the project aswell

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

For your sake, I'd strongly recommend not monetizing the site at all. Publishers will come after you if you make any sort of profit from the site especially if you're located in a western country.

That's one of the main reasons Nintendo took action against Yuzu - they were making a lot of money from Patreon.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

Bit gross that it's a RU domain though

[–] [email protected] 52 points 14 hours ago

there is a .org domain and a few other mirrors go check out https://rentry.co/bookracy the .ru domain is just us taking precautions against a takedown request

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Looks like the GitHub also has its location set to Russian Federation too. 👀

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You really have to ask?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I was an idiot and read it as .ro for Romania. Of course I know about Russia and the war.
Still I also wouldn't comment on people posting .com-links, even though the US are fighting endless illegal wars for decades and the president is wrecking democracy for a police state.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago

.com is not the cctld for the us, that would be .us

[–] [email protected] 28 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Saw some good engineering textbooks on there too. Great job.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 14 hours ago

🖖 ty

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Based. I'll check it out and see if I can be of help on the development front. Been meaning to learn typescript

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

tysm we've got alot on the roadmap and are in need of devs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Is there any Upside over NexusSTC?
Is it decentralised?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Is there any Upside over NexusSTC? Is it decentralised? bookracy has faster and unlimited downloads, lack of popup/redirect ads, and a more active community. also from my knowledge NexusSTC is more academic content whereas bookracy has more of a range of content

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

also no Bookracy is not decentralised - it operates on centralized servers much like LibGen ect. This means that while it’s open-source and community-driven, our infrastructure still relies on traditional hosting, which can be vulnerable to takedowns or disruptions. However we've taken precautions for this and have a bulletproof proxy server which also caches inbetween the storage server and client

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

If it's not decentralized then it's vulnerable to takedowns. Why not decentralize it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Will you also share your collections via Torrents like LibGen and ZLib or contribute back to them?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

yep im planning on setting up an ipfs node and torrents for our own collections are planned for the future

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Awesome!

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