Antilibrary.bit

About

On antilibrary.bit you can keep and grow your personal library while being able to download and read right away any of your books at any time.

Think of it as Goodreads with ebooks download.

Using the technology of Zeronet.io and IPFS, Antilibrary.bit is anonymous, impossible to take down and works offline.

How to access:

Using Zeronet.io

1) Download and install zeronet.io

2) Browse to: http://127.0.0.1:43110/Antilibrary.bit/

3) Download the databases you want to use: Go to My Books and then Setting select the languages you want to download the database of books.

Using a gateway*

1) Go to bit.surf:43110/Antilibrary.bit/

(*Limited functionality - you cannot import or add your books to a personal library using a gateway)

How does Antilibrary works?

• Adding books: Books can be added by anyone (WIP). New books will be added to a separated database. Antilibrary will scan that database for new books and when a new book is found it will download the file from the user, download the metadata from the openweb, test the file to make sure it is a book and free of malware or viruses and then add the book to the main database.
• Downloading ebooks: Given that our currently backlog of books to add to the site is ~25TB we could not possibly keep all of that always online for download. What we do instead is, we keep the files offline using different ways (eg: cloud drives, hard drive space donated by users, etc) and when a user requests a file to be downloaded, Antilibrary will receive the request, get the file from where it is stored and add it to a seedbox where IPFS is running. Then the user will be notified (he will see a notification message next time he opens Antilibrary.bit). This whole process takes up to 1h (once we have enough storage we will keep all files online).
• Editing books metadata: We want Antilibrary to be everyone's library. All control for the library content will be shared among users. The moderation features (eg: removing/editing books, etc) are not in place yet, but they are planned. If you want to be a moderator please email us so you can help us with feedback on how to best implement the moderation features.

Contributing

Please contact us (zeromail: antilibrary@zeroid.bit | openweb email: antilibrary@protonmail.com | reddit: /r/antilibrary/) if you can help with:

• First of all make sure you purchase the books you like! Supporting the author is the most important thing you can do if you like a book. This site exists only to give access to the knowledge contained in the books and this is only possible because of authors. Buy books to you and many copies to your friends and family. Go to your local bookstore and do it, now!
• Bandwidth: You have 100GB+ of space, can keep your computer online for 24/7 and you use a VPN. You can help us to seed book files on IPFS.
• Storage: You have 100GB+ of space and can keep your computer online for 24/7 (users won't download files directly from you, you will only hold files to be downloaded by our seedbox.)
• Bitcoin: We have a montly cost of $15 USD for the seedbox where we seed the ebooks from. Donate to: 147nKEb9bBJgBDgQytEQhmiGjF8e6HkEua
• Time: You would like to be an Antilibrarian and help maintain the books collection.

What is an Antilibrary?

“The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore, professore dottore Eco, what a library you have ! How many of these books have you read?” and the others - a very small minority - who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you don’t know as your financial means, mortgage rates and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menancingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable