LibGen is a great concept, and I have uploaded a lot of my own scans of scholarly material there, but I fear it is sort of collapsing under its own weight now.

LibGen is a great concept, and I have uploaded a lot of my own scans of scholarly material there, but I fear it is sort of collapsing under its own weight now. Its contents will continue to remain available thanks to their smart decision to decentralize it (torrents are available to download and seed the material). However, there is absolutely no curating of LibGen’s holdings. That means that a lot of metadata is wrong or incomplete, and some books are uploaded in a dozen different versions and you don’t know which ones are high-quality and which ones are low-quality scans or outright corrupt files. LibGen is just the latest in a long series of pirate ebook libraries that have popped up and then been either shut down by copyright holders or abandoned by admins. It’ll eventually give way to another, and hopefully the next generation will maintain its strengths while having higher-quality metadata.