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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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 😊
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.
No thanksIf 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
i 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
They can ignore US copyright laws there.
