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Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

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Re: Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

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Post by dr_dshiv »

sgc wrote: post #70
dr_dshiv wrote: post #35

https://SourceLibrary.org has about 16,000 rare books translated — most for the first time. 50,000 books archived (will be translated when we have $$ for it). More tokens than English Wikipedia and about .75 petabytes. Not sure if we will qualify for a bounty, but happy to share! Btw, we are looking for funding from small or large donors who want to help us translate the Renaissance…

Curious as to what your budget was to get where you are today? That's a lot of tokens. I presume you are using gemini flash?

All the models used are shown with each page of translation and each book has a whole data provenance treatment.

You can add it up!

Re: Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

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Post by Brian_K_White »

jvm___ wrote: post #41
ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #19

I 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…

https://send.djazz.se/ This is key for getting epubs to your Kobo.

I don't recall ever needing anything special on my Aura H2O. It's one of the reasons I chose Kobo in the first place. Just copy any file onto it.

If you mean stripping drm I used Calibre for that but mostly I just avoid buying books with drm where possible.

Re: Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

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Post by TFNA »

pull_my_finger wrote: post #63
jvm___ wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://send.djazz.se/ This is key for getting epubs to your Kobo.

I don't understand what this is doing. Can't you sideload any ebook onto a kobo anyway? Never had an issue on my Clara

I’ve noticed that people today often bristle at any suggestion that one connect a device to a phone or computer with a cable – on Reddit, one will often get downvoted for this. Apparently, a lot of younger people are hardly aware this is possible and it strikes them as overly complicated or for old people. People want to wirelessly transfer stuff, and what the OP linked to is a popular way to do that with Kobo.

Re: Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

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Post by TFNA »

anyaya1 wrote: post #67

Does Anna's Archive use a completely different "source repository" from LibGen?

AA compiles from everywhere; LibGen and Z-Lib served as the major sources of books. This has unfortunately led to search results for a particular book containing multiple versions of that book, and it is not readily clear which one is the highest-quality version. A real library would have librarian staff who carefully curate everything, but in the pirate world this isn’t realistic so it just gets all thrown together.

LibGen is now more or less a dead project. The servers of the original version were reportedly seized a couple of years ago already, and other sites under the LibGen name were notorious for piggybacking the original collection and just plastering it with ads. If one wants to upload stuff, better now to upload it to Z-Lib (not a perfect site, but still) and it will then get picked up by AA in a few months.

Re: Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

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Post by pipes »

ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #19

I 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…

Look, fair enough from your perspective. But a lot of those books probably wouldn't exist if the author couldn't make some money from their work.

I can't find the post but years ago on Reddit an author posted stats showing when her book turned up pirates online, real sales for it collapsed.

Because of this I make a point of buying books, programming books especially. Yes I download pdfs, I use them as previews. This has led to buying way more than I would have.

Anyway, I appreciate this doesn't apply if you live somewhere that these books can't be purchased. But everyone praising these sorts of sites tends to look at them from only a positive perspective.

Re: Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

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Post by shevy-java »

trilogic wrote: post #12

Who is behind Annas archive, there is a lot of english speakers involved in the team and forums! Anyway as long as buying isn´t owning no issues here.

I think the main source may be in Russia; or that was with libgen.

But I could be wrong.

I am more surprised to see that there are so few alternatives to it. Or perhaps I am unaware of them but after Facebook and co declared war on libgen, and libgen going down, there were surprisingly few alternatives. Anna was one of the few. I still don't know what happened with libgen, but since the attack it really is kind of semi-gone.

Re: Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

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Post by shevy-java »

DeepYogurt wrote: post #24

Anyone afraid of being laid off at google right now? Perhaps this is a backup :)

I think the problem is more that financial damage would result from this. So people would need to be prepared to relocate to another country probably.

Re: Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

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Post by shevy-java »

mmooss wrote: post #79
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think if you get caught exfiltrating data they'll sue you for much more than $200K.

I'm sure they'd go after you, but hypothetically: What damages would they claim? They still have the data, which isn't their IP to begin with.

Good point. But it would still be a breach of Google policy, most likely and they signed a pact with the devil so ...

Re: Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

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Post by shevy-java »

flexagoon wrote: post #58
FerritMans wrote: post #5

So AA is a front for openai?

No, but they openly make a lot of money from selling their library to AI companies. Fast enterprise access to Anna's Archive starts at $100.000

Interesting. But AI companies drive the RAM prices, which costs me more. So someone makes me pay more here ... :(
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