Magazines and journals
Complete collections of magazines and journals are stuff that is often provided by enthusiasts ready for an easy bulk upload to archive.org. Many (private) ebook/magazines trackers exist but they're not always useful.
It can be useful to archive magazines on the Internet Archive, especially if they're out of commerce and/or their parent company has gone bankrupt. However, active rightsholders tend to quickly take down materials on the Internet Archive: if something is popular, it was probably already uploaded and taken down; double check previous uploads before you upload stuff taken elsewhere.
Web-based aggregators
- Readcomiconline claims to have complete runs of almost 25k titles.
Indexers
Can be checked for torrents of PDF files and other "ebooks" formats:
https://1337x.to/sort-search/pdf/size/desc/1/
Dead indexers
https://torrentproject.se/?orderby=sizeD&s=pdf&filter=3000 is an interesting and tidy meta-indexer.https://alphareign.se/?query=&category=ebook (DHT indexer) has some more listing, but no functioning sort by size as of 2017-02.- https://torrentz2.eu/searchS?f=ebooks
Example list
Old ideas of stuff to check (TPB e-books browsed till http://thepiratebay.se/browse/601/27/5 ):
- http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5946997/Bell_Systems_Technical_Journals_(Full_Site_Rip) – chronomex knows nothing maybe will upload tomorrow
- http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/348558045 + http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/416770457 (GLaDOS trying but connection problems)
- http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6761743/Heavy_Metal_Magazine_Collection_1977-2011 – 24 GiB/1142, https://archive.org/details/heavy-metal-magazine has a few
- http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6640072/Car_Repair_Manuals – 23 GiB/123, joepie91 started 2012-12-17
- http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3787875/Motorcycles_Repair_Manual 16 GiB/648, joepie91 started 2012-12-17
ftp.rta.nato.int/PubFullText/AGARD/ or http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7639843/AGARD_monographs_(_AGARDographs_) 15 GiB/453https://archive.org/details/ftp-ftp.rta.nato.int- http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6500845/22_009_Military_manuals. – godane started and stopped; cf. [1]
- http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3975735/A_ventyrsspel_version_1.5 – asked author but wrong email
- http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5268439/cmh-books 12 GiB/192 – ???
- http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7265203/AIAA_Journal_of_Aircraft and http://thepiratebay.se/tag/AIAA – probably all in https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdocs already?
- http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6134805/GUN_PERIODICALS_JAN_28_2011 and others from same user... (still appropriate after shootings?)
- http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4048893/GRAFFITI_Magazines_MEGAPACK._368_item_(by_AEROHOLICS__VandalsHea 13 GiB/368
- http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4389384/National_Geographic_1930_-_1997 8 GiB/819 cbr
- http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7919294/Cryptome_Archive_2011_Unverified for http://cryptome.org/ – asked uploader
- Lots of torrents by CARG which seem porn or softporn
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6730341/Lats_N_Atts_Magazine_Archive- http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7607778/Porsche_Workshop_Manuals_PDF
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4100086/Elektuur_DVD_1990_-_1999- http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7919459/SCM 3 GiB/755 https://www.partspronto.com/
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6555132/Digit_magazine_archive 3 GiB/4819 – godanedone- http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5516186/Scale_Auto_Mags – ??
- http://thepiratebay.se/user/MOS6510/
- http://thepiratebay.se/user/sonilem/0/5 (too many torrents with mixed stuff, should probably be contacted to see if he can upload himself)
Other:
- http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6079183/c64-archive-v1.2-christmas_2010_edition 39 GiB – being backed up, but needs sorting