Libgen.is is back online : piracy

[-] Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

An alternative is plain old school irc. I'm not kidding.
Connect to irc.irchighway.net then /j #ebooks then !search <author and/or title>
Receive search results via xdcc which gives you the commands to download that stuff.
Or query one of the bots (e. g. @bsk) and get a list of hundreds of thousands of books that are available and search that for what you want.

I prefer that over ad infested one click hosters with countdowns, link shortener cascades and captchas. I find and get the stuff much faster by using irc.

[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't #ebooks basically just mirror Libgen?

Among the major book downloading websites, only libgen.li has ads, and only Anna's Archive has a countdown.

[-] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 3 months ago

#ebooks is composed of datahoarders that have a lot of stuff available. You declare the data source you're getting the book from (e.g. Oatmeal) and then the name of the book.

[-] Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

I'm not sure if #ebooks mirrors Libgen. I wouldn't be surprised if they copy from each other.

I have allergies against ads, countdowns, etc. The interweb is polluted with that stuff and so are most piracy sites.

I find irc to be much easier to use than the alternatives. Just a click to start hexchat and then it auto-connects to the right server and auto-joins the right channel. All within seconds. I even get my animes from irc like I did in 2005. 😁

[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I’m not sure if #ebooks mirrors Libgen. I wouldn’t be surprised if they copy from each other.

It is unclear to me what's the method to upload to #ebooks. I've uploaded some obscure books to Libgen in the past, so I checked whether they're available on #ebooks, and they're not. So... they don't mirror each other. I checked both UnderNet and IRCHighway, and the latter even directed me to these websites in case I'm looking for textbooks. It doesn't seem like an adequate replacement for LG, at least for my purposes.

I have allergies against ads, countdowns, etc. The interweb is polluted with that stuff and so are most piracy sites.

As I've said, this is not a big issue with the sites listed on the uptime tracker I linked. Libgen.is and Z-library have neither (the latter has daily download limits per IP), AA has a countdown (not always), and libgen.li has ads (which I had no idea about until I saw other people mentioning it, thanks to uBlock).

[-] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

it's pretty cool that folks are still doing it that way. maybe I'll make an account and suck some dicks

[+] ma1w4re@lemm.ee 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[-] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 20 points 3 months ago

I used short essays and short stories to get back into reading, maybe that approach would help you. They're really old, but try A Modest Proposal or some of the satirical essays by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), they're short and sweet and inspire a desire for more.

[-] maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you like reading older books, check out https://standardebooks.org/. They make nice digital editions of public domain works for free.

[-] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 8 points 3 months ago

Nice, looks like a bit more care went into the visual presentation in comparison to Project Gutenberg. Thanks for sharing.

[+] ma1w4re@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[-] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 9 points 3 months ago

I read a ton as a kid too (probably averaged 3-5 books a week for many years), as an adult it's hard to escape the cycle of wanting to feel productive but I've since tried my best to remember that reading for pleasure isn't meant to be productive in the capitalist sense. It's an investment in your own happiness, in my opinion, and that can be productive in other ways. Trying new genres or quick "summer reads" has helped me not get bored.

I mostly just don't read much because I have other hobbies I like more and tend to watch a lot of video content and browse social media. I didn't really do any of those things much as a teen, other than a bit of Facebook because everyone had it. For me it's not the priority that it used to be, but I have a book server for easy access when I get the urge.

[-] weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I decided to push my gaming to only evenings because I was unhappy with how much time it consumed, so now I read during the day.

I don't know if you play video games so this may not be helpful to you, but doing this skyrocketed my reading.

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

Did it work?

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 7 points 3 months ago

Convert them to audiobooks. You don't get the voice acting benefits, but at least you can listen to them while you're doing something else.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Convert them to audiobooks

You can just do that? Easily and in halfway decent quality?

[-] aTun@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Use @Voice aloud reader on Android.

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 points 3 months ago

On Linux, it's pretty painless. Takes a while, depending on the length.

This is what I use.

[-] MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Same here. I've been reading Steven King's The Stand for like 2 years now😆

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

It's a very good book though

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago

[-] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Is there some more background to this, as in, what happened?

[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

It's been offline for like a month, maybe more, I haven't kept track. I don't know any details, maybe there's info on their forums, but overall the owners are quite secretive.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

For years they've managed to keep their indexing (think html, not torrent) online by separating out the indexing from the actual storage. They've only changed URLs once in recent memory. Throughout the years they've stored content in various places. Protected safe havens, compromised websites, and ipfs.

There are still a lot of places in the world where hosting a link to data is not illegal.

Well through whatever methods required it looks like the publishers finally managed to shut down the search/hosting on wherever .is was pointing to.

There is a static IPFS index laying around somewhere so technically the content's still quite available. Along with Torrents.

Well they finally managed to bring it back up somewhere and I don't even care to go and figure out where that is. Just glad they're still around.

[-] Anono14168@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

What is on libgen? Movies? Animes? Songs?

[-] Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 months ago

Books. They have both non-fiction and fiction. Between this and Anna's Archive I haven't paid for a book in years.

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