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In praise of libgen (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Lemme google that

this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2024
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