If only there was a megathread about piracy. Oh wait, here it is.
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024
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yeah, good point, sorry. that said do you know if any of the sites fit my use case better than others?
Rather than focusing on where to look, better to focus on how to download. Automation is your friend. There is software (like the *arrs) which automate the downloading of content from multiple locations online.
annas-archive.org
Edit: Also get some books on intentional communities and group survival while you're at it.
Edit2: Sorry just looked at the title didn't read the text. I mean you could try sorting by category or you could get an online list from a librarian about queer books and then manually download from that list of books.
Edit3: You might also be able to ask for help from the person who made this list: https://openlibrary.org/collections/LGBTQ. Most of the books seem to come from the internet archive which makes it easier for a mass download I believe.
Anna's Archive torrents.
Nice try, openai bot (/s)
beep boop :3c
seriosly tho i need data before facists burn everything and idk where to look from the megathread
Other people have already given the answers I'd have said, so I'll say this:
When you do collect enough of the "banned" books to warrant a torrent, create one and share it widely so kids can find em. Something that mentions "banned books" so it'll be easily findable if someone searches that.
That said: they're not really banned in the like actual sense of the word. They're not banned from being sold, nor bought, nor read, nor owned, and afaik nobody is raiding publishers with rifles and making mass burn pits of books. They're banned from most schools and some public libraries. The public libraries I agree is egregious but tbf, most of the ones I looked into would have been banned in my school too, and not because "gay" but for stuff like the blowjob scene in a graphic novel, if that scene, which I've been corrected on multiple times, (it wasn't technically a blowjob it was "strap on play," but) "graphic depictions of strap on play" between straight couples would be similarly banned. Most of the other "banned" ones with no pictures say some naughty words, and IMO that's a piss poor reason to ban something, but it is consistent that whether the person saying "fuck" is gay or straight it's going to be banned for the word "fuck." Hell back in my day they wanted to ban To Kill A Mockingbird because it says the N-word (and that btw was the progressives not the conservatives, pearl clutching at supposed racism despite that literally being an anti-racist book.)
Again, not saying I agree with banning books in schools, fuck it if they want they should have copies of 50 Shits of Grey in elementary schools imo, I'm a fan of disseminating information, but it is being unilaterally enforced and "straight profanity" isn't allowed either.
Any book that’s been banned is going to be freely available many places online, and if the government could actually ban things and have them disappear, piracy wouldn’t exist. I would look for queer literature on private trackers like MAM, and seed those files if you’re concerned. Although usually they have dozens or hundreds of seeders, so they’re not in any danger.
No matter what happens, in four years Trump will be gone, and queer literature will still remain. And piracy will be as strong as ever.
There are flibusta archives, but most of content is in russian