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🚨 It's time to fire up those seedboxes! Preserve human knowledge FOREVER by seeding Anna’s Archive torrents 🚨 (annas-archive.org)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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These are all the torrents currently managed and released by Anna’s Archive. For more information, see “Our projects” on the Datasets page. For Library Genesis and Sci-Hub torrents, the Libgen.li torrents page maintains an overview.

These torrents are not meant for downloading individual books. They are meant for long-term preservation.

Torrents with “aac” in the filename use the Anna’s Archive Containers format. Torrents that are crossed out have been superseded by newer torrents, for example because newer metadata has become available. Some torrents that have messages in their filename are “adopted torrents”, which is a perk of our top tier “Amazing Archivist” membership.

You can help out enormously by seeding torrents that are low on seeders. If everyone who reads this chips in, we can preserve these collections forever. This is the current breakdown:

Status	Torrents	Size	Seeders
🔴	54	154.0TB	<4
🟡	183	92.5TB	4–10
🟢	111	17.2TB	>10

IMPORTANT: If you seed large amounts of our collection (50TB or more), please contact us at [email protected] so we can let you know when we deprecate any large torrents.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bruh, this is a terrible way to share this. Why not torrents of the raw material in predefined categories that won't change? Like "1984 - Sci-Fi - English - A-N", "1984 - Sci-Fi - English - O-Z", "1990 - Biology", "2012 - Physics". Then people would actually even download this to use it themselves, instead of some archive that has to be extracted and will take a multitude of the space again.

The hell am I going to do with a 300GB archive file that I cannot even look into? I might as well be storing an encrypted blob 300GB large or just reducing the size of my partition by 300GB.

It's great that people want to preserve human knowledge, but there surely are better ways to do this.

[+] [email protected] -66 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If you can do better let's see it. This post is for altruists and archivists... clearly you're neither.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago

This is just bad communication, beating down on people that are delivering constructive criticism.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Way to gatekeep. Don't you think it would be better if more people could contribute bandwidth and storage with what they have instead of buy a new hardrive? Wouldn't you want more redundancy, instead of less?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I don't think they use an indexable compression as well, right? That essentially kills stuff for me.

The easiest way to host is not TB/PB sized archives but indices and slices for those.

It easier for a lot of us to download a few gigs and share that, rather than download TB/PB sized archives.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

WTF he’s raising a good point