If they tied a bookwyrm comments section to an ISBN number for example then anybody/site could easily have it embedded to make it a universal tool rather than specifically connected to a piracy site.

I’m envisioning Bookwyrm behaving as a comments section for anna’s archive (possibly all/any decentralised book repositary), but they’d be reviews instead. I’m reminded of discus or facebook that you often get embedded on certain sites.

Grayjay from Louis Rossman’s company is really good - you can even log in with youtube etc. It looks amazing. It looks like a Tachiyomi for Video and Livestreaming!!! You can add other sources.

Imagine somebody gamified it like people gamify seeding lol.

It’s a basic site but well stocked. Not comparable to the big torrent sites, but it is great.

o7

Sigil and Calibre have tools that allow you to view metadata and edit html, toc etc. But I doubt there’d be tracking on a travel book tbh despite the comments below - (I’m happy to be corrected). It’s often visible on journal articles and others have stated technical books too.

I’ve just seen your comment here: https://lemmy.world/comment/4416050. I hadn’t received the notification for it since you have seemingly replied to your own comment. I take your point.

Well you seemed to think I thought you were an idiot.

You also suggested I was omitting something. I’d like to know what that is.

You seem to have a different impression of me than one I tried to convey. I’m not really sure why. You should know me as the person who posted that article on the Romans. Likewise I posted this review as I felt it served a primer and satisfactory summary in some way for the book that I found enlightening. You should tell me exactly what you think I’m doing, because I genuinely cannot tell you, I am mystified tbh.

So I see that the review is also an opinion peice that has extraneous opinions. I did consider editing it, but it was mostly comprised of content from the book that I didn’t bother removing that. Was that the issue?

Are you telling me I haven’t read the book? And what do you mean by evidence? I’ve posted the citation on the other reply.

You’ve got a lot going on in that first chunk of text you posted. But while I am reading Mazower’s book on Hilter’s Empire, I’ll see to your first and last questions: Why did the Nazis look to American Law? and What about motive?

Well the American system was simply by chance or by the inevitable case of Northern European colonisation a very disparate place racially. The ethnic features of the British and Europeans are in stark contrast to West Africans. So this advantage enabled generational slavery as opposed to possible upward mobility through intermarriage by some white servant or serf to somebody above their station. It also made possible as America’s aspirations to become a world superpower grew, the proper enforcement of anti-miscegenation laws as white immigration increased. By the time the Nazis had come to power, the US had the most extreme Blood laws and actively white supremacist legal system, which the Nazis would take interest in.

The Nazis were also obsessed with the future and youth, so their Eugenicist obsession with weeding out the Jew was not unusual nor was it out of step with the Progressive movement of the day - both British and American eugenist circles had their fascists in them. This doubly provided cover for their continued persecution of political enemies, Jews, Roma, the disabled as well as communists and trade unionists.

I’m not sure what your precise disagreement with the text is. And by the way the quoted text I posted above your comment is actually an extract from the book. And the book is cited. Citation number 16 from that extract is: David Scott Fitzgerald and David Cook-Martin, Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), 7.

In general or because they didn’t answer your questions? Because the answer appears to be there in the books.

In the early twentieth century the United States was not just a country with racism. It was the leading racist jurisdiction—so much so that even Nazi Germany looked to America for inspiration. What David Fitzgerald and David Cook-Martin conclude about immigration—that “[t]he United States was the leader in developing explicitly racist policies of nationality and immigration”16—is true of the other areas of the law this book has surveyed as well. In the early twentieth century the United States, with its deeply rooted white supremacy and its vibrant and innovative legal culture, was the country at the forefront of the creation of racist law. That is how the Nazis saw matters, and they were not the only ones. The same was true in Brazil,17 just as it was true in Australia and South Africa,18 just as it was true of the German colonial administrators who went hunting for a model for the making of anti-miscegenation law.19 And while the Nazis liked to mention South Africa as a fellow traveler, in practice they found very little South African law to cite in the early 1930s.20 Their overwhelming interest was in the “classic example,” the United States of America.

This is just a review btw.

Unlikely mate. Millions use it. Its pretty lightweight.

Tbf Tor is based on US military software. Could be a honeypot lol. But it’s the best we’ve got…

I remember using that on windows xp, maybe vista too.

Try going there several times and it should work. I think it may be that the first time anybody connects from another instance to a ‘foreign’ community, it takes time. Given your instance is smaller, newer and literature focused it just means you might be the first person from the instance entering the sub.

This may be the case for many other communities you try and access, so keep an eye out for this. It’s something I’ve experienced on lemm.ee as well.

I’ve just managed to access literature.cafe/c/history@lemm.ee by spamming it over a minute or two.

That’s a shame (and wierd). I’m pretty sure I’ve spoken to the guy who made the literature.cafe instance on either lemm.ee or dot world. I’ll see what’s happened.

I only recently stopped using it. And a lot of content on the internet, expecially ones for download use rar part files to split it up and host freely.