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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ty i forgot to clarify❤
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
Btw the discord link does not work, I would also suggest using Bluesky rather than twitter.
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.
Ty for the support Discord is still risky and so is github so we are aiming to move soon.
Glad to see this initiative. A genuine question: isn’t this redundant with Annas Archive?
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
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
lmaoo ty yeah i genuinely dont understand the hate 😭 yeah annas archive soon come 😊
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why github and not codeberg?
project started a few months ago idk we started on github but I will host a repo on codeberg soon
Saw some good engineering textbooks on there too. Great job.
🖖 ty
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
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
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.
i meant annoying ad free as in no redirect or popup ads - we still need a way to fund the project since donations are scarce
Understandable, apologies if it sounded like i found it annoying; i prefer it like this anyway :) was just curious about that point.
Thanks again for this great project!
nah no worries i just realised i might have come off as hostile lmao 😁 ty for the support
btw the frontend is all open source - the backend will be open source in a month or two after the reqwrite
If it isn’t open source now you shouldn’t say it’s open source. You should say it’s partially open source with plans to get the rest out soon.
This is giving me Fed vibes
i can assure you this isnt a fed op lmao. idk how i can convince you maybe check out the github and check out the devs? some devs are from other big projects like movie-web ect that got taken down.
plus downloads arent hidden behind registration, and we are addnig accounts in the future but its going to be mullvad style - a 12 digit unique identifier so privacy wise theres nothing tying you to the downloads except your ip, which we also dont save so you are fine
Looks cool. I will take a look when the backend is open sourced for sure. Prep for some tough times legally if you continue to use those centralized social platforms.
we will be moving off discord soon
No you won’t you just voted harshly against it.
What about github? With all the more open git alternatives, why pick the code management tool hosted and controlled by Microsoft for open source / piracy?
we will be moving to codeberg soon
I personally find weird the read on web mechanism.
Fed as in?
I’m new to Lenny and wouldn’t mind learning the lingo.
Federal agent.
I think they means it’s a federal operation, a honey pot for a government to crack down on piracy.
In the piracy world, “fed” is short for Federal Bureau of Investigation police officer.
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
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
you can download the textbook here https://dl.bookracy.ru/download/8d4745279f239f2b7c8fac8d41d714e2/God i norsk 1 .pdf
Thanks for working on that, got it now.
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thanks for the heads up about the bug ill fix it asap content is still being torrented and another 1mill books will be added to the collection in a few days so for larger files like these it may be in that collection
No thanksi didnt kno this would cause so much backlash 😭 we only set it as russian federation as jokes i can change it to north korea if you want it doesnt mean the project is from there
also anyone can register .ru domains, i got mine from cheapprivacy.ru where i paid in crypto - an .ru domain along with .su and .to are one of the best domains for piracy since they are very lax and ignore most takedown requests
If you’re afraid of websites hosted in Russia, I have bad news for you regarding piracy.
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
They can ignore US copyright laws there.
Not familiar with this. Does it mean that it’s Russian operated?
no having a .ru domain is just precaution for takedown requests - ive been in the piracy game for quite a while and the tld’s that are normally immune to takedown requests are .su .ru .to and .li I didnt know having a .ru domain would be this controversial and the github is only set to russian federation because of the .ru domain we have - if you check all the devs the times they are awake would all me western times
