Trend I’m spotting: things like Mastodon / ActivityPub and IPFS are having a moment.
Help seed Z-Library on IPFS
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Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
In all likelihood the book you are looking for is available as a .pdf The "best" format for reading books is epub, as it is an opwn format which does not try to adapt a paper format. There are many free readers available for it. >And do I really want evidence of piracy sitting on my hard disk? If your house gets raided by law enforcement, charges for minor copyright infringement should be of absolutely zero concern t…
> The "best" format for reading books is epub, as it is an opwn format which does not try to adapt a paper format. There are many free readers available for it. I disagree. ePub assumes that the thing you are reading can easily be reformatted – for mathematics, technical documents, or similar, this is really not true. I've got a few technical books where the publisher released them as either a LaTeX'd pdf or an epub…
Epub pushes the duty of layout onto the reader, it is very similar to a website. With epub you can freely change font, spacing, etc. (great accesibility feature).
PDF is a representation of paper. LaTeX files look good as a PDF because LaTeX files are created to be printed or viewed as a PDF.
A digital book should not enforce layout. Yes, epub has flaws, especially if it is not seen as the main target for publication.
Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
In all likelihood the book you are looking for is available as a .pdf The "best" format for reading books is epub, as it is an opwn format which does not try to adapt a paper format. There are many free readers available for it. >And do I really want evidence of piracy sitting on my hard disk? If your house gets raided by law enforcement, charges for minor copyright infringement should be of absolutely zero concern t…
> The "best" format for reading books is epub Not really. Practically, for many pirate ebooks you can find in both ePub and PDF you better choose PDF because it looks and reads like the original while the ePub version probably is almost garbage with broken tables, code quotes etc. As a format FB2 is better than ePub because it separates the content from the view while ePub mixes them heavily. I usually convert ePub t…
>Practically, for many pirate ebooks you can find in both ePub and PDF you better choose PDF because it looks and reads like the original while the ePub version probably is almost garbage with broken tables, code quotes etc.
The reverse can be true as well, where the pdf is some badly compiled epub.
And with the epub at least you can always read the actual text, without repeated swiping for each line.
Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS
#84Trend I’m spotting: things like Mastodon / ActivityPub and IPFS are having a moment.
and the usability/UX is horrible.
Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS
#85Be warned that IPFS is not anonymous, and the IP addresses of the nodes serving the content are quite easily obtainable. And since the FBI already got involved and arrested people, this is quite the risky endeavor.
Another warning: IPFS is extremely resource intensive (from CPU to bandwidth) .
I’m pretty disappointed they didn’t mention this in the article. If this gets any traction it will eat as much CPU and bandwidth you give it.
Running with Docker and limiting CPU is necessary along with a bandwidth limiter/policer/shaper.
Having run IPFS for a long while it also ends up in strange states and stops responding to requests. I’ve taken to using a monitoring system to GET a known CID and restart the IPFS container if it fails.
My bandwidth and hardware have 100% uptime but IPFS needs restart at least a couple of times a day on average (looking at logs).
In short: this isn’t practical.
Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS
#86There is no chance that I would risk this. I would gladly donate several Terabytes of seeding if this possible in a secure and _anonymous_ network.
It is possible to run ipfs behind tor. And I'd argue it is the right way to do so.
If you have a way to run ipfs over tor, please share.
Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS
#87Trend I’m spotting: things like Mastodon / ActivityPub and IPFS are having a moment.
and the usability/UX is horrible.
I use Mastodon a lot now. It has greatly improved vs years ago but yes it still lags behind what closed silos can do. The main reason for this is lack of an economic model to fund polish.
Same is true for all the other FOSS decentralized things.
Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
In all likelihood the book you are looking for is available as a .pdf The "best" format for reading books is epub, as it is an opwn format which does not try to adapt a paper format. There are many free readers available for it. >And do I really want evidence of piracy sitting on my hard disk? If your house gets raided by law enforcement, charges for minor copyright infringement should be of absolutely zero concern t…
Yes but even a PDF needs downloading on mobile browsers. Whereas the Books section of the Internet Archive has a consistent format and displays them all in-browser, it's so much more convenient and user-friendly. This archive should aim for the same.
> This archive should aim for the same.
This archive of a project where the principal actors are currently awaiting extradition to the US for copyright infringement charges should work on making the user experience better?
Think they have bigger fish to fry like making sure the archive of the project survives which, incidentally, is what this is all about.
Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS
#89Why the hell is this site not https? Note the first blog post was in 2022. No https in 2022? Red flag. This looks like a honeypot to me And for the record, z library gets its books from libgen? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it was just a frontend?
Z library extended the libgen collection (apparently without contributing back to it).
Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS
#90Be warned that IPFS is not anonymous, and the IP addresses of the nodes serving the content are quite easily obtainable. And since the FBI already got involved and arrested people, this is quite the risky endeavor.
Filecoin might be a good solution for this. Basically pay other people to host it for you