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https://send.djazz.se/ This is key for getting epubs to your Kobo.
Or... just a USB cable?
I the zlib app on my phone. No clean way from my phone to on my Kobo.
Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
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That way definitely will work with the current access google provides however its an extremely inconvenient way to scrape google books
That's why they're paying you $200k for it.
yeah it's similar to what I would value google books scraping job difficulty wise and data wise, I've done my probing on m own it was water tight as my probing has gone
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Now that AI is decimating a lot of bullshit jobs we need a basic income of some kind. A universal one. That would enable the authors, activists and hackers to pursue what's meaningful, instead of the profit of the multinational leeches that do not need to adhere to laws, borders or taxes. If a zillion dollar corporations (Meta and the likes) can torrent Annas Archive and decimate the copyrights I see it a moral imper…
I too think Basic Income is a necessity. I don't think it can happen in the US (for cultural reasons) but I think elsewhere it can work. (And indeed in many places it kinda, sorta, already does). >> That would enable the authors, activists and hackers to pursue what's meaningful I would counsel not using the word "meaningful" in the context of BI. We already have a way of evaluating "meaningful", it's called "money".…
> I would counsel not using the word "meaningful" in the context of BI. We already have a way of evaluating "meaningful", it's called "money". If society gets to judge what is meaningful or not, well, that's the system we currently have.
I’m also going to take issue with this interpretation of “meaningful” - I’ve known several amazing crafters and artists who have had an incredibly hard time doing their craft simply because the demands of capitalism prevent them from putting the time and effort into honing those skills, finding a market, creating a portfolio, etc.
If anything, I think BI is just as likely to add meaningfully to society as it is to give people the option to do meaningless things.
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#314Anna’s came clutch for me yesterday. I spent a few days trying to find a zip file of a CD that came with an old book from early 2000s on programming. One of those Thomson Publishing slap jobs that I actually enjoyed. I checked used copies all of them said does not come with CD. I tried googling around, nothing. LLMs couldn’t find it. ChatGPT kept saying it is on the archive (no it isn’t you useless piece of shit). An…
Consider putting them on archive.org then, they have a section for that and it helps spread sources
Good idea. I’ll see when one of the used copies I got comes with a CD so I can provide the actual .iso image.
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#315Anna’s came clutch for me yesterday. I spent a few days trying to find a zip file of a CD that came with an old book from early 2000s on programming. One of those Thomson Publishing slap jobs that I actually enjoyed. I checked used copies all of them said does not come with CD. I tried googling around, nothing. LLMs couldn’t find it. ChatGPT kept saying it is on the archive (no it isn’t you useless piece of shit). An…
What for?
Honestly? Nostalgia. I ran it in a sandbox just to check it out and play with it.
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That's just cultural elitism. I hope you meet someone in your life who finds absolute joy in reading young adult romance novels or D&D fantasy books so you can understand how irrelevant "good" literature is. I love Dostoevsky and Verne (and D&D novels, especially those written by R.A. Salvatore), but I would never judge the modern "IPs" that got my daughter into reading. > best literature What does that even mean?
Everyone has their own opinion as to what the best literature is, just like what the best music is. But there is also some consensus. For music it would be Beethoven, Mozart, the Beatles, etc. For literature it would include Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dickens, Austen, Tolkien, and many more. I would bet it will eventually include Stephen King but it's too early to make that call now.
There is no such consensus. Those are just popular answers coming from people with eurocentric tastes over the last couple of centuries. Millions in the global south would swap The Beatles for Celia Cruz or Fela Kuti. People in Asia from the 1700s to this day would tell you Tyagaraja is a way better composer than Beethoven and Mozart put together... he is a literal saint in India, actually.
Not to mention, many people would disregard your answer for putting Stephen King (and Tolkien, to a lesser extent) in the same sentence as Tolstoy and Shakespeare.
There is no "better" anything when we talk about culture. No consensus, etc. There are just opinions.
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#317I live in a country where the selection of available books, especially in English, is very limited. Buying online from foreign markets comes with a long list of administrative hurdles and limits. If it were not for Anna's Archive and Z-Library, I would've never been able to read the books that shaped who I am today, or keep my passion for learning alive. Thanks, AA and ZLib! (Also, thank you to the authors whose book…
That's almost every country these days. At least in the EU. Amazon doesn't carry nearly the selection you'd want, and certainly not in the non-fiction department.
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If this is not bad faith argument, then I don't what is. When someone is violating an OSS licence, they are doing it for commercial gains and monetary profit. Nobody is angry at someone using FOSS software for himself with no money getting involved. As opposed to that, books, movies are pirated for personal consumption. Not monetary gains. If someone bought a $30 book, and then ran a BaaS with millions of VC money in…
If knowledge is to be free, that means there should be no restrictions on how it is used. Even an open source license misses the point, because the implication is still that one person can dictate how another person can make use of knowledge. It’s still premised on the same dystopian view that a person can own an idea.
This is ultimately just a reframing of "a tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerance".
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Hey, this looks fascinating! I can't quickly tell what all you have archived^, but I have some friends who are academic historians who might be interested in certain categories of work (and could help verify some esoteric languages) - is it possible to search by region or language? Have you reached out to any types of historians WRT the project? It seems like some PhD students might be able to find some projects in t…
Yes, this is designed with historians and librarians from the Embassy of the Free Mind ( https://embassyofthefreemind.com ) in Amsterdam, stewards of the collection of the Biblioteca Philosophica Hermetica Please share with historian friends. I’m not great at socials or fundraising but this was really designed to support humanists. It can give DOIs for the versions of the translated books, which means they can be quo…
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So Anna's Archive is in some ways a front for AI companies, gathering the sources they can't get themselves?
Not really, AA is the source.
By 'sources', I mean the original books, papers, etc. For example, in this context, the American Heritage Dictionary and On the Origin of Species are sources (of knowledge). I don't mean your local bookstore or library where you acquire them.