It's very strange to me how small Spanish is there.<p>Second language in the world by native speakers, piracy being effectively legal in Spain (non commercially), and so on.
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.<p>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.<p>Thankfully I live somewhere where I can download legally.
There is a bounty for improving the visualization[0].<p>[0]: <a href="https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archive/-/work_items?show=eyJpaWQiOiIzMjUiLCJmdWxsX3BhdGgiOiJBbm5hQXJjaGl2aXN0L2FubmFzLWFyY2hpdmUiLCJpZCI6NzIzNzR9" rel="nofollow">https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archiv...</a>
Feels like a market map for books. Very cool.
How much can you zoom it? Yes.
Is there a similar one for IP?
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).<p>I hope they can fix this in the long run. We need to preserve digital information on a much broader basis.
> I hope they can fix this in the long run.<p>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 (ie. 1dollarscan), and upload it to ZLib/LibGen.<p>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
this is really cool!