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Ryan ryan@spatia-arcana.com 3 weeks ago
An awesome front end for Anna's Archive on Android πŸ“š A clean interface, and it automatically selects links and takes care of captchas when downloading.
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The original dev had stopped working on it, but fortunately a new fork is being worked on.
GitHub
GitHub - warreth/OpenlibExtended: An Open source app to download and read books from shadow library (Anna’s Archive)
An Open source app to download and read books from shadow library (Anna’s Archive) - warreth/OpenlibExtended

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Laeserin laeserin@theforest.nostr1.com 1 week ago
Anna's is full of copyrighted material. We're working on mass-importing directly from open-access archives, like Project Gutenberg or the Harvard dump, instead. Anna's also uses those archives, as it's just an archive search engine (it doesn't actually store those books), but they include Pirate Bay in the search results, and we're not going to put those items on our project's relay.
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Ryan ryan@spatia-arcana.com 1 week ago
Does your app only publish to that specific relay, or can any relay be used? Combined with a personal relay it would be a great tool for building a library for yourself, and the possibility of sharing it with the world.
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Ryan ryan@spatia-arcana.com 1 week ago
Ah good so it is still possible. It would be a good reason to have a tor relay, if your country has strict copyright laws I suppose. Do you have a link to any info on this pirate bay/Anna's Archive connection? As far as I've known it is comprised of stuff from libgen, z-library, sci-hub & the Internet Archive. I haven't been able to find anything linking it to The Pirate Bay. They do both seem remarkably resilient to takedown attempts and legal threats.
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Laeserin laeserin@theforest.nostr1.com 1 week ago
It started out as the mirror for the Pirate Library and they offer a bunch of torrents from there, to download. Internet Archive also has a bunch of copyrighted stuff on it. The whole thing is shady as heck. What other people do is their own business and our tools don't actively block anything (although our websites might). We are only importing from the open-access databases. Anything else is out of the question.
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Laeserin laeserin@theforest.nostr1.com 1 week ago
It's on the ReadMe.md of the NIP repo, under "curated publications" (that includes e-books).
GitHub
GitHub - nostr-protocol/nips: Nostr Implementation Possibilities
Nostr Implementation Possibilities. Contribute to nostr-protocol/nips development by creating an account on GitHub.
 Otherwise, you can find NKBIP-01 and other specs on Wikistr https://wikistr.imwald.eu/nkbip-01*fd208ee8c8f283780a9552896e4823cc9dc6bfd442063889577106940fd927c1 Or just look for the naddr: View article β†’
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