Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com rdwxth @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4d ago

Introducing a new open-source shadow library!

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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Always excited to see a new project like this. I would def move away from reddit and Github. Both have a track record of going after piracy projects. Reddit used to be safe but they are going full hammer rn. Github seems to be fine unless its too obvious its piracy. Discord is still safe.
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.
Being “private” and having a discord is like an oxymoron.

I only see a front end on GitHub. Is this just a libgen mirror?
Bit gross that it's a RU domain though
This is giving me Fed vibes
Saw some good engineering textbooks on there too. Great job.
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?
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.
Glad to see this initiative. A genuine question: isn't this redundant with Annas Archive?
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
why github and not codeberg?
No thanks
Based. I'll check it out and see if I can be of help on the development front. Been meaning to learn typescript
Is there any Upside over NexusSTC?
Is it decentralised?

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