BitTorrent. A bit torrent with all papers and books shared for free on LW ever would be really neat especially if we had people share private collections.
Good idea. I just created a torrent file. It’s uncompressed so that you can pick which PDF’s to download, in case you don’t to download the whole library. (It’s now a compressed zip file; see update below.) Here’s the magnet URI:
Please note that many (~40%) of the books and articles included here were given to me by several different friends over the past few years. So although the stuff you own does say a lot about you, I’d like to ask those who decide to download this material to kindly abstain from making any strong inferences (flattering or unflattering) about me from the list of items in my library. ;-)
I hope to keep seeding indefinitely, but I can’t guarantee this for the long term. So please seed, too, if you can.
One final thing: if you have a large library of files yourself, please consider sharing it with us!
UPDATE: the torrent became corrupted when I added new files to the directory (which I do regularly, since my library is constantly expanding). So I created a new torrent with a zipped file of the library at its current state. You won’t be able to pick which pdfs to download, but at least the torrent will not become corrupted again. The magnet URI changed, so make sure you have the updated version, posted above.
2nd UPDATE: there are now two separate torrents; see here for details.
There are no seeds during the day (Australian time). And then I leave my computer on overnight and it only downloads an extra couple of percent. downloading at about 4kB/sec. Unlikely to be a problem on my end. Would be keen for increased seeding of this. And then I can split up the file, pick the good parts and then repackage it in a new LW/rationality torrent. :/ Just as soon as it gets seeded better.
I’d like to echo other folks’ requests for seeds from anyone who has the whole thing. I am currently making very slow progress in discrete spurts in downloading this, at 45%.
Once I have the whole thing I am willing to work on doing something like this for the books in the library and/or support theduffman’s proposal by seeding.
I’ll keep seeding this indefinitely, so you should be able to download the entire library eventually. However, if you’d like to download specific files, there’s now a separate torrent which contains all the files in the original, uncompressed format. See here.
BitTorrent. A bit torrent with all papers and books shared for free on LW ever would be really neat especially if we had people share private collections.
Good idea. I just created a torrent file.
It’s uncompressed so that you can pick which PDF’s to download, in case you don’t to download the whole library. (It’s now a compressed zip file; see update below.) Here’s the magnet URI:magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1D845DB543FFF3DE83B66FAA595F1A3D9F42ED42&dn=Library.zip&tr=udp%3a//tracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80/announce
Please note that many (~40%) of the books and articles included here were given to me by several different friends over the past few years. So although the stuff you own does say a lot about you, I’d like to ask those who decide to download this material to kindly abstain from making any strong inferences (flattering or unflattering) about me from the list of items in my library. ;-)
I hope to keep seeding indefinitely, but I can’t guarantee this for the long term. So please seed, too, if you can.
One final thing: if you have a large library of files yourself, please consider sharing it with us!
UPDATE: the torrent became corrupted when I added new files to the directory (which I do regularly, since my library is constantly expanding). So I created a new torrent with a zipped file of the library at its current state. You won’t be able to pick which pdfs to download, but at least the torrent will not become corrupted again. The magnet URI changed, so make sure you have the updated version, posted above.
2nd UPDATE: there are now two separate torrents; see here for details.
Could you please resume seeding this library so that I can download it and help? This seems potentially useful.
Please update the magnet URI. Let me know if you are still encountering problems.
There are no seeds during the day (Australian time). And then I leave my computer on overnight and it only downloads an extra couple of percent. downloading at about 4kB/sec. Unlikely to be a problem on my end. Would be keen for increased seeding of this. And then I can split up the file, pick the good parts and then repackage it in a new LW/rationality torrent. :/ Just as soon as it gets seeded better.
I’ve now created a separate torrent which allows for selective downloading of individual files. See here.
I’d like to echo other folks’ requests for seeds from anyone who has the whole thing. I am currently making very slow progress in discrete spurts in downloading this, at 45%.
Once I have the whole thing I am willing to work on doing something like this for the books in the library and/or support theduffman’s proposal by seeding.
I’ll keep seeding this indefinitely, so you should be able to download the entire library eventually. However, if you’d like to download specific files, there’s now a separate torrent which contains all the files in the original, uncompressed format. See here.
Okay. I wrongly guessed that there was no one who had the whole thing and was seeding.
No seeds, none for a while in fact.
Please update the magnet URI. Let me know if you are still encountering problems.
Downloading at last! Currently running at 4kB/sec ;-) Thank you for this :-)