Probably a good time to mention Anna's is looking for people with extra hard drive space to help seed their torrent files, and are constantly looking for volunteers and donations to help out. If you even only have a little time or resources, any help is much appreciated to keep the archives collection alive. You can also find links to them their wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Extra hard drive space is good and all but the last time I looked at their lists, all decently sized torrents had a good enough amount of peers while the large torrents which aren't as manageable were the issue.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I just looked and thres lots of accessory torrents with 'small' archives (dozens of GB, not hundreds or heaven forbid TB)

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Where could I find these torrents? Been looking, but found nothing

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Try in here - no good direcly linking 'cos they keep changing URLs

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

Maybe they added new ones since I last looked

[–] SammyJK@programming.dev 30 points 5 days ago (1 children)

AA has managed to stay up for surprisingly long. I hope they will continue to do so. There is a large amount of documents that are hard to find anywhere else there, no to mention all the university books that would cost a a fortune to buy for a poor student...

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've gotten so much good stuff off there.

[–] lemmysmash@beehaw.org 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What are you guys getting from there? What kind of books/materials? Not to judge or spy on you ~~(what a spy would say)~~, but just genuinely curious.

[–] SammyJK@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago

Some very niche books, like books that are related to a game series for example. Also some university literature, scientific papers and history/culture books that are either hard to find or very expensive locally.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago

Just about everything except obscure old books