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If I could tack it on to the current network with a single pi+Ethernet connection it would be worthwhile

Seems like a lot of I/O for a poor SD card.

Mostly just O, if it's caching.

Requiring a raspberry pi and burning an image is not generally accessible to a non technical person imo

If you're not slightly technically inclined you wouldn't be interested in contributing to Z-Libs decentralised hosting so this isn't an issue.

If you're limiting support of Z-Libs to only those 'slightly technically inclined', you're leaving a lot of support on the table.

That’s a fair point.

The main demographic is people who are probably already technically inclined... but there are lots of supporters of intellectual freedom who are not the main demographic of Z-Library.

Even my grandma with dementia knows how to burn CDs. The software to burn a disk image to an SD card is even easier to use.

With alpine and an external HD you just need to copy some file on a windows-formatted SD card to have a fully working system that doesn't even write to the SD.