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[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This seems great, thank you. Do you donate to them or is it good even for free users?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

The free downloads are slow, but as books are usually small, it is perfectly usable without donating.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

It's alright for free. The slow downloads are still perfectly usable unless there are server-side issues, and they also provide links to other mirrors (libgen.li, which is still up, Z-lib, and IPFS).

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://whereislibgen.vercel.app/

I can also see multiple instances of libgen. It's not dead lol.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know libgen was dead

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

It's not lol. Not sure what this person is talking about.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

one of its many mirrors whenever its dead

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Z-Library. Despite reports of its demise I've seen no interruption of service. And of course if there's one I want to pay for I'll buy a printed copy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

One of my university lecturers uses this, I could see it in his bookmarks while he cast his browser lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I'm using the z-library app. It does the searching for me :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

As they should

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Just needed to remake a Z-lib account recently (without an account you can read but not download I think), and an alias from simplelogin worked. With temp-mail services I wasnt getting the confirmation email. And I ain't gonna use my domain for pirating, sorry :)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm out of the loop. What happened to libgen?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Apparently libgen.rs is down

Edit: It's back up

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

https://libgen.is/ is still working for me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I can still visit this instance

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Amazed no one has mentioned MyAnonamouse. They have open sign ups pretty regularly, the best private tracker I've ever seen. Great for ebook and audiobooks both.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah I've never had to use anything other than MAM and Mobilism.org and nobody mentioned either

Mobilism has been my first choice for over a decade, then if I can't find it, MAM and leave the pc on for 72 hours lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You just have to stay active as a community member and balance wedges and points for certain downloads. And have a strong no leaching policy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I've gotten a lot from free leech and then just leave it running all the time to get points for other books.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How long has it been? It's just a 502, happens sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

couldn't be that long. i was on the site a couple days ago.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The torrents are alive; as long as you can get the torrent links from libgen, you have access to the files. (No need to share whole archives either, you can pick & choose).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nice. Althoigh it's difficult to find a specific book via torrents, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The name of the pdf file inside the torrent is its md5 hashsum without the .pdf extension.

On libgen.rs you can see the md5 hashsum on the download page; on libgen.li you need to look at the JSON file provided at the link on the search result , as they don't render it on the ui.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Never knew it was dead, that's a sad loss. Hope it comes back, I used to use there quite a lot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

the .rs one might be dead but afaik the .li fork is still up. And then there’s annas archive mirroring both and more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Firstly, I search for the book among Telegram book groups. Then, Google/DDG/Bing/Yandex results for "[title of the book i'm searching] filetype:pdf". If neither yields the book, I turn on my Tor and try to find it inside Imperial Library of Trantor. Worst case scenario, I try to find a working Z-Library HS. But some comments here added to my possibilities, such as Libgen (I knew Libgen from onion, but it's interesting to see it also routeable on surface).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What telegram book groups would you recommend?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I'm Brazilian so I generally use public Brazilian (Portuguese) groups, publicly available through Telegram searches such as "Livros grátis" ("Free books" in Portuguese) or "livros pdf" ("pdf books"). There probably are similar anglophone groups as well.