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Myanonamouse is a place of friendliness, warmth, and sharing.
This, this, this!!! I love MAM for ebooks and audiobooks.
Yeah honestly ebooks and audiobooks are a solved problem thanks to MAM.
The worst part about mam is that I feel useless because I consume way more than I contribute.
As long as you keep seeding torrents indefinitely, you're contributing by keeping those torrents alive. That's a huge benefit to the community, and it's why you can get upload credit even if you aren't uploading.
And the fact that ebooks take almost no space means you can indefinitely seed thousands of books even if it's from a small hard drive.
So don't feel useless. In fact, I want to thank you for helping out.
Yeah I know, but I wanna see that uploaded counter go up and it never does. Also I mostly torrent audiobooks and I don't have much hd space
Edit: disregard this comment
But getting in is not very easy and many torrents are behind a VIP-wall (you can buy VIP for seeding-bonus points). The tracker is focused on audiobooks, but there are also many e-books available.
Dafuq? They run interviews twice a week, and the questions are dead easy.
Which you just have to wait a few weeks to get past the account age restriction and hand over a few bonus points, which are trivial to get. Just bookmark anything you can't get and have a little patience.
Yeah I second this, it was so fucking easy to get in you just have to look up when the window is each week, jump on their irc, read a minimal amount of rules and then answer some questions on them to prove you read them. It took me about half an hour.
The VIP paywall thing is bullshit too. They do have a points system which was a little confusing at first but if you take the time to read all the introductory posts explaining them then it is an easy system to follow and you can easily amass many freeleech wedges which completely negates the so called VIP wall.
Can't recommend them enough and so much fucking selection compared to free trackers.
I'll Third this as well. You're first week of seeding will net you 10s of thousands of "points" and "wedges" you can trade for VIP status, etc.
Just download a ton of freeleech books, seed em for 72 Hours minimum, done. Longer you seed, the better for everyone.
Also, you'll find anything and everything you are looking for. In every format...
Piling on to this, part of what makes MAM great is that you get bonus points for seeding even if no one is downloading. Just keep your torrents running indefinitely and it won't be long before you have free VIP forever, a 10:1 ration and still end up with more points than you could possibly give away
Piling in to say been a member for 10+ years, it's my go-to for any books (text and audio), and with the system they have, my ratio is somewhere in the 300+ range. All by keeping around 100 book torrents alive on an old raspberry pi and using the bonus points.
only 100?