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).
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).
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.
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).
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.
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 :)
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How long has it been? It’s just a 502, happens sometimes.
couldn’t be that long. i was on the site a couple days ago.
https://annas-archive.org
This seems great, thank you. Do you donate to them or is it good even for free users?
The free downloads are slow, but as books are usually small, it is perfectly usable without donating.
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).
Mirrors:
https://annas-archive.se/
https://annas-archive.li/
Never knew it was dead, that’s a sad loss. Hope it comes back, I used to use there quite a lot.
the .rs one might be dead but afaik the .li fork is still up. And then there’s annas archive mirroring both and more.
https://whereislibgen.vercel.app/
I can also see multiple instances of libgen. It’s not dead lol.
Annas archive exists
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).
Nice. Althoigh it’s difficult to find a specific book via torrents, isn’t it?
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.
Lib Gen is fine.
The press reported it was dead a few months ago for some weird reason. Never believe what you read.
How do you access it? I’ve got no working link
http://loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhembyd.onion/
Thx!
I don’t use tor much. I try accessing it using clearnet where idon’t have a working link currently.
Good to know that it’s still up although not accessible for me currently
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).
What telegram book groups would you recommend?
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.
one of its many mirrors whenever its dead
This is how I found out. RIP to a real one.
I didn’t know libgen was dead
It’s not lol. Not sure what this person is talking about.
Libgen isn’t dead? A couple mirrors show 502 errors, but others don’t and can be accessed normally
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.
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 :)
One of my university lecturers uses this, I could see it in his bookmarks while he cast his browser lol
As they should
I’m using the z-library app. It does the searching for me :)
I’m out of the loop. What happened to libgen?
Apparently libgen.rs is down
Edit: It’s back up
I can still visit this instance
https://libgen.is/ is still working for me
I hop on to TOR, but it’s pretty much the only thing I go onto TOR for. I got some soviet industrial manuals