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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] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

why github and not codeberg?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

project started a few months ago idk we started on github but I will host a repo on codeberg soon

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

Is there any Upside over NexusSTC?
Is it decentralised?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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] 6 points 1 month 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] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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

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

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

Glad to see this initiative. A genuine question: isn't this redundant with Annas Archive?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

annas archive doesnt have fast downloads for free users - downloads take around a good 30 mins for a decently sized books

bookracy aims to fix this issue

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

Thx for clarifying! I usually don't notice that bc I always use the external downloads. It would be rly cool to see bookracy in the external downloads of Annas Archives then!

also pls keep your humour, it's funny to see the libs get mad bc they see a "Russian Federation" tag

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