I used to pirate a lot back in the YIFY and original Pirate Bay era. Did IRC downloads, torrent and Pirate Bay and similar sites.

Used a good ISP that did not care. Fast forward to now. Our ISP is not pirate friendly.

Have used TorGuard VPN for 10-15yrs now and it seems to work fine for our minimal needs.

Would like to know what would be best for getting books for our son with autism and epilepsy. He devours books.

Our local library has cut a ton of books to his chagrin. An example the Series of Unfortunate Events books.

What are the best pirate book sites to hit and what to use?

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    28·
    22 hours ago

    Library Genesis when it’s up and Anna’s Archive. Anna’s Archive’s database is a proper superset of the Library Genesis database but IMO Library Genesis is a little easier to search. For both sites, make sure you’re rocking uBlock Origin.

    I don’t know much about TorGuard VPN, but it’s probably fine if it’s been fine for pirating other stuff. Books are on the order of 300MB for uncompressed scans or 3-50MB for books that are rendered directly to PDF, i.e. it’s not that much data unless you’re training the next ChatGPT. I pirate a lot of academic books as an autistic PhD student and I’ve had no issues 😆

    Happy reading! 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴🏴🏴

    • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      7·
      20 hours ago

      Wow. Got everything setup. Got all the Snickets ;-) some other stuff as well!

      Thank you.

      • specialseaweed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        21 hours ago

        Just wanted to comment in support of the original answer. The person is exactly right.

        If audiobooks ever become a thing for the kid, nothing beats Anonamouse.

  • compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    12·
    21 hours ago

    If you don’t mind going through the trouble of the “interview” to join a private tracker, I have heard very good things about MyAnonaMouse

  • Jediwan@lemy.lolEnglish
    7·
    21 hours ago

    Adding to what others have said, I got Calibre-Web Automated set up and put KOreader on an old Kindle, so that when I find a book I can just upload it to CWA and easily browse the home library from my device (it sync progress too if you read on multiple devices).

    You can also use calibre (desktop version) to strip DRM from library books so you can return the them earlier for someone else to borrow :)