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! 🤝❤️

  • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    2 months 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
      3·
      2 months ago

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

      • layzerjeyt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        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.

    • rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months 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
        1·
        2 months 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!

  • drasticoAEnglish
    10·
    2 months 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
      5·
      2 months 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

  • bastionntb@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 months 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

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      2 months 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.

    • rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      7·
      2 months 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

    • rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      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

      • алсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        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

    • rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months 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
        4·
        2 months 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

    • rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

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

  • nullptr@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • LiamBox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Btw the discord link does not work, I would also suggest using Bluesky rather than twitter.