A post about pirate book archives, their inevitable demises, and continuity and complexity of catalogues as new sites emerge. (As well as musings on the challenge of resourcing and financing such illegal [in many jurisdictions] operations at the scale that is needed.)

https://eve.gd/2026/01/01/the-lineages-and-inheritances-of-shadow-libraries-and-their-documentation/

The Lineages and Inheritances of Shadow Libraries and their Documentation

Shadow libraries, that is, illegal massive repositories of books of all kinds, are of course prone to takedowns by police and disappearance from the internet...

Martin Paul Eve