Back in the day I recall finding lots of well curated and conveniently packaged ebook collections. Things like Goodreads choice 20XX, top 100 sci-fi of all time, etc. These days I know plenty of places generously providing individual books, but not where to find these nice collections. The ability to browse popular releases would also be nice. Ideally I would avoid needing to setup specialized tools, like readarr. But if something like its list feature simply blows away any other options I'd consider it; whatever gets the best results in the least time.

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[–] 1 point 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

aside from stuff like annas archive / libgen

in the past, i had ok luck using dht search sites like bt4g (org) but it was very hit and even more miss in terms of whether the torrent/magnet still had seeds. but that approach did have some collections like what you mentioned. and i did used to get the occasional valid collection mixed in among the dead torrents and other bs.

i havent really done it that way in a long time so not sure how well it works these days tho... like I searched a couple things similar to what you had in the OP and did get some small number of results (less than 1 page). some of those appeared valid but watch out cuz there were also some obvious malware ones that were like <title>.exe. Probably not the best way to do things for 2026+ ... and if you try it anyway, i highly recommend an adblocker, an up-to-date torrent client like qbittorrent, and maybe run a antivirus scan on the download when it gets done just to be safe.

could also check https://fmhy.net/reading but i suspect most of those are also going to be geared more towards individual books than collections. Only other things I can think of are usenet/debrid but I don't have experience w either so I couldn't say definitively.

If you do manage to find a good modern way to get collections, I'd also be interested to hear it.

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