I imagine it would be possible to set up like a kiwix server with text and PDF files of these books downloaded from Gutenberg, using only of course public domain copies, and then set up a QR code that would allow someone passing by to pair with your kiwix server, download those books and then have their own copy of them.

[–] Furball@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Books are small files which aren’t big enough for torrents to be useful. Go ahead and look on z-lib, which has whatever book you could possibly want available for direct download

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was thinking of a large curated torrent, every time the a book gets banned it gets added to the torrent, one stop shop to fight modern book burning

[–] Furball@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Torrents can’t be modified once they are made. Making 1 torrent and adding things to it wouldn’t be possible to do

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I guess we can just do rolling releases

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

BitTorrent v2 supports modifying torrents as well as deduping matching files from multiple sources (great for varying collections of books)

https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

P2p protocols like BitTorrent are useful because they are decentralized and very very hard to control by authority.

Shutting down one or a cluster of servers owned by one person is easier than chasing after 10,000 people in 100 different countries.