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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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
yeah sure a little help on getting started would be great but ill get to it
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.
My opsec doesn’t allow for any Russian projects at all
Fair, at least as long as they’re not open-source
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
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.
This is giving me Fed vibes
Fed as in?
I’m new to Lenny and wouldn’t mind learning the lingo.
I think they means it’s a federal operation, a honey pot for a government to crack down on piracy.
Being “private” and having a discord is like an oxymoron.
I only see a front end on GitHub. Is this just a libgen mirror?
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
Revolt.chat is a really solid alternative to Discord
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?
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
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.
Bit gross that it’s a RU domain though
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
Why?
You really have to ask?
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.
I know right.
I do not, care to explain?
im so lost…
.ru was for precautions against DMCA and the russian federation thing on github was just jokes because we had a ru domain
And why is it a problem to have a ru domain? Or is it just a russia bad thing?
well idrk im guessing some people have political reasons to dislike russia
Looks like the GitHub also has its location set to Russian Federation too. 👀
lmaoo that was just for jokes - most of us are from western countries
I see you share Elon Musk’s sense of “humour”.
A lot of pirated content sites are Russian. This just feels ignorant or racist.
Saw some good engineering textbooks on there too. Great job.
🖖 ty
No thanksThey can ignore US copyright laws there.
Russia is one of the key destinations for piracy because of lenient laws and even more lenient police practice regarding it.
If you’re afraid of websites hosted in Russia, I have bad news for you regarding piracy.
And why a Twitter account?
All states are the enemy, borders are spooks, seek allies worldwide. Borders are not real, the imaginary scars of the owner class, erase them all.
Talk to Ukraine about borders
What’s happening in Ukraine sucks
That doesn’t contradict the sentiment that borders are generally arbitrary lines designed to divide us.
Using a Russian sure to get free books doesn’t hurt Ukraine unless these are all like infected with Russian turbo malware or something
Not familiar with this. Does it mean that it’s Russian operated?
Based. I’ll check it out and see if I can be of help on the development front. Been meaning to learn typescript
tysm we’ve got alot on the roadmap and are in need of devs
Is there any Upside over NexusSTC?
Is it decentralised?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
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
If it’s not decentralized then it’s vulnerable to takedowns. Why not decentralize it?
Will you also share your collections via Torrents like LibGen and ZLib or contribute back to them?
yep im planning on setting up an ipfs node and torrents for our own collections are planned for the future
Awesome!
