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 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 years ago (1 children)

I didn't know libgen was dead

[–] rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com 27 points 2 years ago

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

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 years ago

one of its many mirrors whenever its dead

[–] kbal@fedia.io 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Bridger@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Findmysec@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago

As they should

[–] pipes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years 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 :)

[–] kyle@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 years 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 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] hurtn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago

Use Tor browser

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

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years 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 years ago (1 children)

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 years 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.