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! 🤝❤️

    • rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      10 minutes ago

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

  • bastionntb@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    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

  • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    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.

    • rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      btw the frontend is all open source - the backend will be open source in a month or two after the reqwrite

    • rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      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

      • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        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!

    • rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      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

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      15 hours ago

      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.

  • drasticoAEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    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?

    • rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      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

    • rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      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

      • rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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        24 hours ago

        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