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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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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 63 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As a fun experience, try downloading any sources you can on libgen about a low level programming language and then try to code on it without ever looking up the internet. Just these sources.

The fact that this is doable speaks volumes about how big of an information source it is. Not everywhere has good access to internet, but the knowledge to progress further is certainly obtainable.

[–] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 months ago

Code a terminal application that downloads from libgen from a c tutorial book you downloaded from libgen

libgenception

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Never used libgen but this sounds fun, can I download in bulk? I wanna make a small lgbtq archive

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you can download entire libgen archive if you are so inclined, there's even torrents list https://libgen.rs/repository_torrent/

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So, its several torrents?

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you don't know where's what, because torrents are packaged by submission date and not by topic

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I saw the website, it is several torrents? Or is is one for the whole site?

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

there's 4265 torrents right now with 1000 pdfs per torrent. 120TB ish as of three years ago

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

Definetly can't store all that, will make myself a curated list I guess

[–] welldraught@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Lemme google that