Back in the day I recall finding lots of well curated and conveniently packaged ebook collections. Things like Goodreads choice 20XX, top 100 sci-fi of all time, etc. These days I know plenty of places generously providing individual books, but not where to find these nice collections. The ability to browse popular releases would also be nice. Ideally I would avoid needing to setup specialized tools, like readarr. But if something like its list feature simply blows away any other options I’d consider it; whatever gets the best results in the least time.
Personally, I use IRC. There are guides up from around 8 years ago that still apply today. Ill link them once Im free in a few hours.
same; i do vpn + irchighway
might pop over to irc right now actually
Listened to first book of an audiobook series and liked it… but the torrents i got on abb for books 2-4 haven’t been able to find seeds in weeks so maybe i’ll just get the ebooks. don’t have a mam acct (no seedbox and currently shared living arrangements so my monthly datacap kinda sucks right now). tho i have been thinking about maybe picking up a usenet and/or debrid account if i can find a deal on black friday
That would be appreciated, thanks
Sorry for being late. The day would not end :(
I’m on Bazzite, and personally use the IRC chat that comes as part of the KDE Plasma suit (dont remember the name, but you can get it in the Bazaar)
Dang, it had to be on reddit. Unfortunately, I don’t have access.
Thanks for posting!!
Pre edit: I don’t turn my VPN off for anything or anyone. And I deleted my Reddit credentials on that fateful July a few years ago
yeah, i hate reddit too… fuckers block me like 99% of the time when im on vpn and just wanting to view contents w/o logging in. And unfortunately even https://fmhy.net/reading links to the reddit version
here’s some guides already on dbzer0 (the pics are dead or a lie but it should still work):
With Pictures and everything!edit: there’s no pics.
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and if you hate reddit as much as I do, you can use alt front ends + the open-source redirector addon (linked to homepage but its on github and firefox/chrome addon sites too).
Some alt front end pages I had bookmarked:
basically, what I do is find a list of the instances for whichever front-end (any of them should be fine. but to give example, from the sr.ht list, I picked redlib then went to their instances list and tried a couple and picked one that had decent load times for me then used it to fill in the following details for a redirect in the addon):
addon settings (replace
redlib.catsarch.comwith your preferred instance):Description: reddit to catsarch.com (US redlib instance) redirect Include Pattern: ^https?://(?:\w+\.)?reddit.com/(.*)$ Pattern Type: regular expression Pattern Description: keep the path from reddit but replace the domain Redirect to: https://redlib.catsarch.com/$1 Example URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/books Example result: https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/booksnote: if you actually login to reddit then my pattern might be too simplistic and could potentially break login when the rule is active… bc it would be trying to log you in on the frontend instead of reddit actual. i don’t ever login there so never really tested it. but it works great if you just want to be able to read shit there without logging in
Thank you for this. I appreciate you taking the time
Do they offer any advantages over anna’s archive?
Only in that I found books there that are not available in the archive.
Latest example: The Genki textbooks for learning Japanese.
This is awesome and I had no idea it existed. But I’m not seeing how this offers better collections/discovery?
Your right. They do not offer collections. Sorry I didn’t read properly 😔
I mean for the most part, you are right that collections aren’t the norm there… but they do technically exist. if you
@search collectionthere are some but yeah wouldn’t be my first pick for epub/mobi collections either