AKSUM is a decentralized book download tool. It allows you to download specific books from webtorrents.
Features • How To Use • Tecnology •
You can see it in action, with an open (copyright free) book torrent here
AKSUM is:
- Decentralized
- Completely client-side (static page, no server required)
- Simple to use
To use AKSUM, if you've received it with a btdata link, just search on the books bar for any book / author. After selecting one, you'll see a download button to get your ebook.
On the preferences page, you can find a torrent input, adding a torrent there will store it in your browser, and only you will be able to see its books.
You can share your torrent list, just use the "share" link after you've added your torrents
If you want to contribute seeding, you can either keep the browser open, or install a webtorrent client, such as WebTorrent or Vuze. Just use them with the magnets as you would with a normal torrent. You can even create new torrents
The official instance is at davidfrancos.net.
You can host a local one by building it, and serving the dist files.
yarn install
You can serve it with
yarn serve
If you fork this repository, you can simply build and deploy it to your ghpages, given you have configured ghpages for that repo.
yarn build && yarn run deploy
AKSUM is, basically, a web interface for WebTorrent that lists files that "look" like an ebook, via file extension.
It allows you to download from multiple torrent sources, and keep torrent file lists on gist.
For that matter, it uses the following libraries: