[HN Gopher] ISBN Visualization - Annas Archive
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       ISBN Visualization - Annas Archive
        
       Author : Cider9986
       Score  : 56 points
       Date   : 2026-03-27 20:02 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (annas-archive.gd)
 (TXT) w3m dump (annas-archive.gd)
        
       | ZenDroid wrote:
       | How much can you zoom it? Yes.
        
       | chcardoz wrote:
       | this is really cool!
        
       | shevy-java wrote:
       | 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).
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       | I hope they can fix this in the long run. We need to preserve
       | digital information on a much broader basis.
        
         | flexagoon wrote:
         | > 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
        
       | Cider9986 wrote:
       | There is a bounty for improving the visualization[0].
       | 
       | [0]: https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-
       | archiv...
        
       | atulvi wrote:
       | Is there a similar one for IP?
        
       | implode7569 wrote:
       | Feels like a market map for books. Very cool.
        
       | comrade1234 wrote:
       | 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.
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       | 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.
        
       | kace91 wrote:
       | 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.
        
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