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In praise of libgen (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Let's just all stop and appreciate that libgen is a thing in the internet. It has saved me so much money with very overpriced math textbooks during college when my family was low-income. It contains virtually all the books, and even obscure ones. It provides low barriers to entry for knowledge for people wanting to advance their career, and perfect for finding epubs for books to send to my kindle. (I buy physical copies of books, it's just convenient to have a kindle instead of volumes of lord of the rings while travelling)

Overall, this is what the internet promised. Fast, easy, universal access to information. It sucks that governments are trying to take it down, and do what governments do best which is to restrict the flow of information and restrict freedom.

10/10, libgen is the best thing in the internet. Long live libgen

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[–] rinze@infosec.pub 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes. I combine libgen with Anna's Archive and Z-Library and there's very, very little I can't find.

Combine that with KOReader and this is pure bliss.

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

doesn't Anna's archive already include those two sources or is it incomplete?

[–] rinze@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago

I'm not completely sure. Sometimes I find stuff in one site I don't find in any of the other two. Also, I don't know how often catalogues are synced.