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Where do you get books after Libgen died? (lemdro.id)

submitted 2 months ago by Ankkuli@lemdro.id to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] far_university190@feddit.org 105 points 2 months ago

https://annas-archive.org

[-] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 2 months ago

Mirrors:
https://annas-archive.se/
https://annas-archive.li/

[-] Ankkuli@lemdro.id 15 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Certainly_No_Brit@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 2 months ago

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

[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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).

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 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.

[-] astro_ray@piefed.social 40 points 2 months ago

I didn't know libgen was dead

[-] rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com 27 points 2 months ago

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

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 months ago

one of its many mirrors whenever its dead

[-] kbal@fedia.io 36 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 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

[-] Bridger@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

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

[-] pipes@sh.itjust.works 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 :)

[-] Findmysec@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago

As they should

[-] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Apparently libgen.rs is down

Edit: It's back up

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

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

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 1 points 2 months ago

I can still visit this instance

[-] kyle@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 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

[-] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

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

[-] kyle@lemm.ee 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.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 months ago

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

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] hurtn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago

Use Tor browser

http://bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion/?signAll=1&ts=0007

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

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).

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

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

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 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.

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 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.

[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 6 points 2 months ago

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).

[-] azron@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

What telegram book groups would you recommend?

[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 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.