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Be a real shame if everyone just downloaded all their books from a friendly mouse-themed private tracker.
I don't follow, do you mean Lemmys icon?
Anonamouse is the main private tracker for ebooks and similar.
The other person answered your question, but let me add that it is single-handedly the best place on the net to get ebooks and audiobooks. And that’s coming from somebody that prefers Usenet over torrents for virtually everything.
I’ve never run across a book I haven’t been able to find and have downloaded within minutes.
last I checked Anonamouse was very anti-VPN (maybe its just a private tracker thing, not sure - I don't really use those). Which sucks bc I've heard really good things but I'm absolutely unwilling to compromise on the IP address, even just for registration. I've seen too many instances of places getting burned at some point years later and having all this info on users and while I hope that never happens to them, not willing to risk it myself.
For anyone else similarly inclined to never expose their real IP address for even a picosecond, there are some other options too like audiobookbay (daht) lu for audiobooks / irc highway for epubs/mobi (e.g. using hexchat which is FOSS). There's also sanet (daht) st/blogs/audiobb/ (formerly audiobb (daht) com) which doesn't have as much selection but might be good for people looking for litrpgs and other niche things that they can ddl via RG links.
I use a VPN with them, and have no problem. You have to tell them you use a VPN, so that they know you’re not registering for multiple accounts. But if them knowing you IP during the interview is a problem for you, there’s always public trackers. The experience isn’t as good, but that’s why they’re public.
yeah, that's what i've had to do. really wish they didnt require ip during interview or whatever. would be happy creating a protonmail account so they could verify im not spam but my ip is a no-go.
out of curiosity, do they ever use that ip again after the interview for tracking or account recovery or soemthing? like if i signed up from a coffee shop or bar or something while travelling, would it ever be required again to where i might be fucked if i needed same ip?
No, after you register, your IP mostly doesn’t matter, with the exception that whatever IP you’re using to download the torrent, needs to be the one that downloads the torrent file. Obviously, there is a way to configure a separate session that’s allowed to download, for the people who use seed boxes.
so if you dont have a seedbox and get thru registration and are downloading/seeding on vpn server A and server goes down, can you switch to vpn server B or that fucks everything up?
really wish torrent had a concept of identity using gpg or private keys so that all this pedantic ip address crap wasn't necessary. would probably have joined private trackers ages ago if it had something liek that
If you have your session set to be a static IP, then it will stop the torrent. If you're using a VPN, you tell MAM that, so the IP connected to that session would be able to update.