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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[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 24 points 22 hours ago (9 children)

This is giving me Fed vibes

[–] dhaonna_aontaithe@midwest.social 6 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Fed as in?

I'm new to Lenny and wouldn't mind learning the lingo.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago

In the piracy world, “fed” is short for Federal Bureau of Investigation police officer.

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[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Being “private” and having a discord is like an oxymoron.

I only see a front end on GitHub. Is this just a libgen mirror?

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 day ago (4 children)

No its not a libgen mirror - we have our own collections and are torrenting from libgen + zlib aswell - and backend is going to be open sourced in the future once its finished and ready - right now the code is very janky and im too embarassed to release it lol. Theres still alot of additions to do to the backend and once that is done I will release.

We also have a telegram and signal group - the discord was just for my existing community who are primarily discord users aswell

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[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Bit gross that it's a RU domain though

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 1 day ago

there is a .org domain and a few other mirrors go check out https://rentry.co/bookracy the .ru domain is just us taking precautions against a takedown request

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Why?

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You really have to ask?

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[–] simonlm@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks like the GitHub also has its location set to Russian Federation too. 👀

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lmaoo that was just for jokes - most of us are from western countries

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 20 points 1 day ago

I see you share Elon Musk’s sense of “humour”.

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[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Saw some good engineering textbooks on there too. Great job.

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago

🖖 ty

[–] drastico@lemminielettrici.it 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

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?

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[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Based. I'll check it out and see if I can be of help on the development front. Been meaning to learn typescript

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

tysm we've got alot on the roadmap and are in need of devs

[–] albert180@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there any Upside over NexusSTC?
Is it decentralised?

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.com 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it's not decentralized then it's vulnerable to takedowns. Why not decentralize it?

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 13 hours ago

only the frontend is vunerable to takedowns - our backend server is proxied thro a bulletproof hosting provider (our sponsor snowcore) masking the ip of the storage server thus making it not vunerable to takedowns

decentralisation isnt the only way to be immune to takedowns theres many more but i get your point

[–] albert180@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Will you also share your collections via Torrents like LibGen and ZLib or contribute back to them?

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yep im planning on setting up an ipfs node and torrents for our own collections are planned for the future

[–] albert180@piefed.social 1 points 19 hours ago

Awesome!

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