and even added several titles myself

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In this case it means you’ll have to pass a simple interview to use the site.

A public tracker is a torrent tracker which doesn't require an account to use (e.g. The Pirate Bay, Kickass Torrents)--you just download the torrent file/magnet link and stick it into your BitTorrent client. Private trackers require accounts--even if you're given a torrent file from such a site, it won't actually work unless you have an account. Some of them can be elitist and exclusive, with byzantine interview processes that require you to jump through a lot of hoops to prove your worthiness. MyAnonamouse is on the other end of the spectrum; if you can read and answer a few questions, you can join.

The main advantages of private trackers are quality/consistency standards and availability of old torrents. With public trackers, there might be ten very similar torrents for the same thing, so you have to do some legwork to figure out what meets your needs the best. Private trackers will require some bare minimum amount of metadata and have standards to prevent true duplicates and allow better torrents to trump inferior ones. On public trackers, any seeding (continuing to upload a torrent after downloading) is done purely out of the goodness of one's heart, and so it's not uncommon for old torrents to have 0 seeders and be impossible to download. Private trackers require/incentivize seeding, so it's rare to have this problem.

Neither is superior to the other, but they can complement each other. For instance, I use public trackers for the vast majority of my anime needs, but if I need an old obscure anime or a well-organized music collection my private tracker rarely lets me down.

so basically in the late 90s irc was kicking big and there was a thing about "can law enforcement spy on irc channels" and shit and there was some public debate about messageboards and shit and it was determined that because irc was a live chat but also a semi private one, all servers are privately hosted and one has to seek them out, that it amounted to a private conversation

so, unless it no longer stands, conversation in irc are protected for privacy unless you are talking about national security shit but if you want to trade files that requires a warrant in other words nobody is going to pull a warrant for you downloading a book and as far as i know nobody has ever been sued by an industry honeypot thing like the mpaa used to do

so if you want to download illegal shit irc is the way to go just need a client that can utilize DCCC

books and comics and rpgs and textbooks are all things pretty commonly traded on irc you just join a server and do "@search Den of Vipers" and you'll get a zip with a text file that shows all the bots in the channel serving you your reverse harem smut book Den of Vipers and you just copy and paste one of the bots command to download it and bam you are done its not that hard and works a bit quicker for small files like books than other avenues of piracy

then you can use clibre to organize and read your reverse harem smut boot Den of Vipers right on your computer or use that same program to transfer it to an ereader device - i recommend Kobo readers they are competitively priced and easier to use pirated shit on that amazon personally i use a kobo libre 2 i just had to install a calibre plugin that converts the books to the kobo format when they transfer but thats pretty much it