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Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 13 October 2012 04:29:38PM *  4 points [-]

Good idea. I just created a torrent file. I̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶u̶n̶c̶o̶m̶p̶r̶e̶s̶s̶e̶d̶ ̶s̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶c̶h̶ ̶P̶D̶F̶'̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶l̶o̶a̶d̶,̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶c̶a̶s̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶l̶o̶a̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶o̶l̶e̶ ̶l̶i̶b̶r̶a̶r̶y̶. (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.

Comment author: theduffman 28 October 2012 06:23:06AM *  1 point [-]

Could you please resume seeding this library so that I can download it and help? This seems potentially useful.

Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 28 October 2012 06:09:51PM 0 points [-]

Please update the magnet URI. Let me know if you are still encountering problems.

Comment author: theduffman 06 November 2012 09:39:00AM 1 point [-]

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.

Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 29 November 2012 03:01:41AM 0 points [-]

I've now created a separate torrent which allows for selective downloading of individual files. See here.

Comment author: AlexSchell 29 November 2012 01:54:33AM *  0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 29 November 2012 03:00:10AM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: AlexSchell 01 December 2012 04:56:11AM 0 points [-]

Okay. I wrongly guessed that there was no one who had the whole thing and was seeding.