justcallmelarry 8 points a month ago

Never had any of the issues you are describing with annas archive

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obbeel -4 points a month ago

Try "Contemporary Religious Satanism" and see if it works for you. You'll find all the problems I've mentioned.

Is it a problem to want more options? To want a distributed network of available books for knowledge? Does everything needs to be concentrated in Anna's Archive? Does it seem without failures to you?

Search for the same book in z-lib. Copyright claims have removed the book!

Don't you agree people should resist more about this instead of letting everything for the hands of Anna's Archive? Does this make sense to you?

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justcallmelarry 12 points a month ago

The whole point of AA is that it's not centralized, or "left in their hands." The software is open source and all the data and metadata is hosted via torrents, so anyone with enough space can just spin up a mirror with everything intact.

As for the book you mentioned, I was able to download it via a slow mirror in around 6 minutes (4mb file), no issues at all. As I did not actually read the book, though, I have no idea whether anything is wrong with the contents, but a quick scroll through gives no issues.

I haven't tested Bookcracy at all, but a quick glance doesn't look like it's open source or really tell me where the books are from (might be from the AA torrents!), so I will just stick to AA, personally. Especially since they are also not listed on any of the shadow library tracking pages (like SLUM).

I'm sorry to hear that you are having issues with AA, but I was just adding the counterpoint that I have had no such issues overall, and anyone who has the same experience may upvote my comment as they wish.

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obbeel 3 points a month ago

thank you for your answer

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harrys_balzac 3 points a month ago

Any problems I've had with AA is with some of the partner website links being broken.

Usually those are also for really obscure books that took me some time to find to begin with on AA. Fortunately, not finding those couple of books did not end my life.

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Bougie_Birdie 4 points a month ago

Funny enough, I didn't have a problem getting your book from Anna's. I could not find a version on Bookracy that would download

Bookracy leaves me feeling squeamish. I don't know what CloakGPT is, but it sounds disgusting. And while I do agree that knowledge should be free, their vibecoded app can't even filter by language when their books are tagged as such.

I agree that knowledge should be decentralized and distributed. I don't think this is it though

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cerebralhawks 6 points a month ago

Never heard of it.

I looked up Dungeon Crawler Carl, which is a popular series which I have collected already. Even filtering for English, it lists Russian and Spanish, and other language releases as English. I'm not sure if it's being flooded with bad information, but if Russian and Spanish are being given as English, how can you be sure the book itself is what they say it is?

Or maybe it is the book but it's missing pages. What if you get 2/3 of the way through a book and it just seems to jump ahead inexplicably?

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