Books and more books for son with Autism (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

10 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I used to pirate a lot back in the YIFY and original Pirate Bay era. Did IRC downloads, torrent and Pirate Bay and similar sites.

Used a good ISP that did not care. Fast forward to now. Our ISP is not pirate friendly.

Have used TorGuard VPN for 10-15yrs now and it seems to work fine for our minimal needs.

Would like to know what would be best for getting books for our son with autism and epilepsy. He devours books.

Our local library has cut a ton of books to his chagrin. An example the Series of Unfortunate Events books.

What are the best pirate book sites to hit and what to use?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Library Genesis when it's up and Anna's Archive. Anna's Archive's database is a proper superset of the Library Genesis database but IMO Library Genesis is a little easier to search. For both sites, make sure you're rocking uBlock Origin.

I don't know much about TorGuard VPN, but it's probably fine if it's been fine for pirating other stuff. Books are on the order of 300MB for uncompressed scans or 3-50MB for books that are rendered directly to PDF, i.e. it's not that much data unless you're training the next ChatGPT. I pirate a lot of academic books as an autistic PhD student and I've had no issues 😆

Happy reading! 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴🏴🏴