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 20 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

This is giving me Fed vibes

[–] dhaonna_aontaithe@midwest.social 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Fed as in?

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

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[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 17 hours 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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[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 56 points 21 hours 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 30 points 21 hours ago (3 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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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 42 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Bit gross that it's a RU domain though

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 22 hours 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 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Why?

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 7 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

You really have to ask?

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[–] simonlm@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 20 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] drastico@lemminielettrici.it 24 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 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?

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

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

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[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 33 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 22 hours ago

🖖 ty

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 13 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours 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 22 hours ago

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

[–] albert180@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Is there any Upside over NexusSTC?
Is it decentralised?

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours 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 21 hours 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 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] albert180@piefed.social 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours 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 18 hours 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 12 hours ago

Awesome!

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