ISBN Visualization

Cider9986 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There is a bounty for improving the visualization[0].

[0]: https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archiv...

comrade1234 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I got burned buying a trilogy with a good rating on goodreads. I only read the first 1.5 books and didn't bother after that. It sucked and when I looked again later it had a more relevant rating. I think the initial score was gamed by bots.

So now I download from Anna's archive and if it's as good as I expected based on ratings then I pay for it, which I've done most recently for Children of Time.

Thankfully I live somewhere where I can download legally.

	▲	james-bcn 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Children of Time is wonderful! I wish Adrian Tchaikovsky would stop churning them out so quickly and write some more of the quality of Children of Time.
	▲	AreShoesFeet000 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Imagine being sanctioned for trying to read books.

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rwoerz 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Blocked in Germany by CUII https://cuii.info/ueber-uns/

	▲	burgerone 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Change your DNS server
	▲	on_the_train 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Strange. People always say that Germany is connected to the internet and china bad, Germany good etc

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kace91 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's very strange to me how small Spanish is there.

Second language in the world by native speakers, piracy being effectively legal in Spain (non commercially), and so on.

	▲	gonzalohm an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's because some books are not categorized as Spanish. They are just under a publisher name. For example, search for "Don Quijote"
	▲	sfRattan 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Piracy of anything other than live streams of La Liga games... For those, Spain shuts down whole IP ranges and cripples the Internet at large while the game is live.
	▲	ghighi7878 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Spanish is second largest by people but not by revenue

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ZenDroid 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How much can you zoom it? Yes.

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rosstex 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This makes it feel like there aren't many books in the world

	▲	C-x_C-f 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's funny, I came out of it with the opposite impression. In the section for my native tongue, I zoomed in a few times, here and there, and I only once did I stumble upon an author I knew. To me, writing a book feels like such a monumental endeavor that I find it hard to fathom the amount of collective effort that it took to write all this, especially considering how most of these works are almost forgotten by now (something something power law).
	▲	squigz 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		There are 101,000,000 books visualized. Another way of looking at it is how incredible it is that we can catalogue (and archive) so much of humanity's writing.

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fakefish 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The bookshelf is nice, but I'd love to be able to read the titles more easily - maybe rotate by 90 degrees?

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atulvi 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is there a similar one for IP?

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kobbs 12 hours ago | parent [-]

https://vad.solutions/ipmap/

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gzread 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Crazy how much more IPv6 space RIPE NCC allocated than ARIN. Really shows off their countries' different stances on innovation.

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p-e-w 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I think it’s even crazier that a visible slice of the address space that is supposed to last for the rest of humanity’s future has already been allocated.

	▲	gzread 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's 1/8 of that space and it's being allocated in big blocks that are expected not to run out unless humanity expands to the whole solar system. If it does run out, there are 7 tries left. More if you only use half as much space next time.

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implode7569 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Feels like a market map for books. Very cool.

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shevy-java 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

One problem I see with annas archive is that there is a tendency towards older books. Now I do understand this for many reasons, but ... I recently read a book about steel construction in 1932, just for curiousity. I wanted to find a more recent one - did not even have to be, say, 1990 or 2000 or some such, but I simply could not find any (well, perhaps english speaking, but this is also a problem in that non-english languages are VERY underpresented in general).

I hope they can fix this in the long run. We need to preserve digital information on a much broader basis.

	▲	flexagoon 15 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> I hope they can fix this in the long run. There's nothing AA could "fix" here, this depends entirely on volunteers uploading the books. Your best way to help is to buy the books yourself, use a book scanning service (eg. 1dollarscan), and upload it to ZLib/LibGen. You can also make a book request on ZLib, that way someone else will be able to do that for you if they want to
	▲	layer8 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		In my experience, the availability of anything that isn’t popular or computer nerd-adjacent from before the age of ebooks is very hit and miss on AA.
	▲	cdrini 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I found this on open library from 1989, if useful: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5859479W/Steel_construction?... With a few other options in search: https://openlibrary.org/search?q=%22steel+construction%22&mo...
	▲	AreShoesFeet000 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Recent publications have not yet passed the test of time.

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chcardoz 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this is really cool!

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FrustratedMonky 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is really nice.

When zoomed all the way, it is a book shelf. Totally un-expected, nice touch.