Download

The latest torrent is located at http://theanarchistlibrary.org/docs/TheAnarchistLibrary-2011-04-stable.torrent (release date: April 5th, 2011)

Help on ISOs

The .torrent of the library is released as an iso files. It's a convenient way to package the huge amount of files shared without making your client freeze or crash. They are so-called "images" of a file-system.

The ISO contains a full mirror of the library site

If you don't know what to do with the ISO, this is the page for you.

On Windoze (a.k.a. Microsoft Windows)

With the ISO you can do basically 2 things: burn it on a physical CD or DVD (and then access the files inserting the CD-ROM into the tray), or unpack the iso on your disk storing them normally.

Burn it!

On your burning software, you have to use the option "Burn image".

Please note that Windoze doesn't come by default with a serious burning tool and burning the ISO without it is impossible. So, if you don't have specific burning software installed see below about extracting the archive.

Unpack and browse the files on your disk

Probably the best way to do this is to install 7-zip, a compression utility which is free software:

http://www.7-zip.org/

Once is installed, right click on the .iso file and "unpack" and wait.

Right click on the file -> 7-zip -> "Extract in ...": (ok, it's italian, but the highlighted menu says "7-zip -> Extract in cd-a4-2010-09-22"

Extracting...

And finally you have it. Open index.html to browse.

On Linux

You can mount the iso for local browsing or burn it.

Burning

With K3B, Brasero, or similar software: find "Burn image" in the menu, select the file, and burn it. Or, at the command line should be enough

$ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso

Where file.iso is the downloaded file.

Unpack on the disk

At the command line, as root, do:

# mkdir -p /mnt/iso

# mount -o loop path/to/the/file.iso /mnt/iso

You'll find the files on /mnt/iso.

Browsing

Opening index.html with a browser should be enough to give you full access to the texts.

There are also some "hidden" files (not really hidden, just not linked directly or indirectly to the index.html: "code" contains the sources of both the software used and the library archive in is bare form (from which everything else is generated).

"tex-src" contains the TeX source, in case you want to edit them.

See FormattingHowTo

The README.txt

*** WELCOME TO THE ANARCHIST LIBRARY ON TORRENT ***

In this directory you can find an ISO image. You can burn it on a
physical DVD, extract them with 7-zip, or just mount it. See
http://bookshelf.theanarchistlibrary.org/TheAnarchistLibraryOnTorrent
if you feel lost. 

The DVD image contains a full mirror of the site located at
http://theanarchistlibrary.org, as retrieved on March 24th, 2011.

Once you have mounted, burned, or extracted the ISO, you can either
browse the folders or open the index.html to browse it as you would do
on with a browser on the internet (opening index.html with Firefox
will do the job).

*** REPORTING PROBLEMS ***

If something is not OK (broken links, data corruption, whatever) on
this release, you have to blame marco@theanarchistlibrary.org