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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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 159 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 hours ago

From the responses in this thread, it seems like OP is either a fed, or, much more likely, extremely inexperienced and naive when it comes to Opsec. At the very least, they are putting themselves at risk. Is it still advisable to leave this post up?

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[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

why github and not codeberg?

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 68 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

putting aside the obvious glowie talk someone else raised, you should really, really reconsider your opsec. And I mean, really. Using discord to communicate? And spamming Reddit, from a non-dedicated account, no less? Posting PII to justify downtimes? If this gets any traction at all, you're in deep shit. There's a good reason Anna is as anonymous as she is. Cat is out of the bag at this point, I'd recommend shutting it down. You could always continue developing the code for it, the frontend looks pretty good. But please, reconsider if you have the dedication and knowledge it takes to run a shadow library and not be caught.

[–] NedRyerson@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'd be more than a little interested to be pointed towards a guide, or even just a bullet point list, of good opsec considerations or tools for a project like this. I've got time and technical ability but don't spend a lot of time thinking about these concerns. The last thing I want is to cause myself trouble I'm not ready for, but I'd like to make a significant contribution to the community, so I want to prepare adequately.

Any guides or lists you can think of?

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Becoming a provider (on any significant scale) should be treated like a second job, at least. If you want to go the silent route, you need to completely separate your daily life from the illegal stuff. Obvious stuff, like no shared email- or other accounts, but even down to no shared browser sessions. The old fashioned way is a second laptop. If you want to make an impact and contribute to the community, consider seeding torrents for some of the existing shadow libraries. Anna's Archive has about a petabyte of torrents that have less than three seeders, for example.

[–] NedRyerson@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

I can appreciate your concern and point of view, but I asked "so if I want to do this, how can I prepare to do it safely?" And your response was "just don't, do this instead." I can certainly seed, but that's not what I'm aiming for. I am far more interested in creating systems and providing content. My time is...flexible. Suffice to say, the time concern is not going to be the roadblock.

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

our model is just like the old movie-web, we are open source and if we are DMCA'd then we will take it down but our mirrors will still be up but i understand the opsec point and may move from discord to signal

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

that's good and all, but as it stands now, it seems almost guaranteed your PII will leak. Are you okay to never set foot into a country that extradites to the US again?

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 7 hours ago

Are you saying there is a way to escape my student loa*s forever?

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[–] Tramort@programming.dev 9 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

My opsec doesn't allow for any Russian projects at all

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 hours ago

having a .ru domain is just precaution against takedowns - none of the devs are russian its just the west and russia dont get along so takedown requests for a .ru domain would be ignored by russia

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[–] bastionntb@lemmy.ml 10 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

you can download the textbook here https://dl.bookracy.ru/download/8d4745279f239f2b7c8fac8d41d714e2/God%20i%20norsk%201%20.pdf

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

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

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