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For those who may not know, this is a front-end to LibGen. I like the search feature more and use it now and then, but for me the 5-downloads-per-24h limitation
by kiryin 5y ago
For those who may not know, this is a front-end to LibGen. I like the search feature more and use it now and then, but for me the 5-downloads-per-24h limitation is usually quite limiting.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThe recommendations are also generally good. Z-Library for discovery, LibGen for fulfillment!
- miki123211 5y agoFriends have been telling me it's generally easier to find stuff on z-lib than it is on libgen. Does it have a better search engine? Does it have more books than libgen? Are they just wrong?
- dorchadas 5y agoFrom my experiences with it, in LibGen you have to search exactly what you want. A simple typo ruins it. Z-library is a better in that regards, so typos don't really ruin the search, allowing you to find stuff more easily.
- Rompect 5y agoI don't know whether they have a different dataset of books, but the search engine is definitely vastly superior. Not only in looks, but most importantly in terms of results.
- captn3m0 5y agoI think Z-lib indexes libgen's recent uploads much faster, so it makes a difference for newer books.
- ninchuka 5y agoI just use tor when I download off it and spam changing my IP when it doesnt work till it does
- ivanche 5y agoWhy is that limiting? Can you honestly read more than 5 books in 24h?
- solarkraft 5y agoYes, I can both skim and collect more than 5 books in 24 hours.
- ivanche 5y agoCollect (I presume you mean download?) is an easy part and I agree one can download thousands of books in 24h. Skimming is very different from reading is very different from learning. If you want to skim titles/headlines then yes it's a limitation. I'd just argue it's not what books are for.
- CGamesPlay 5y agoOther people deciding what books are for is one of the main reasons libgen exists!
- humanistbot 5y ago> I'd just argue it's not what books are for. Who are you to decide what books are for, especially on a pirate site? I use libgen for research. Trying to figure out if a book is good for what I'm looking for is hard! In a traditional physical library, I'd sit in the stacks and scan through sometimes dozens of books before finding what I'm looking for. Then I'd check out those few books and read them more in depth.
- tacon 5y agoI have hundreds of books I want to dump if I substitute the digital version on my disk. When in discard mode, I easily hit the 10/day limit of a free account. But that is what the favorites list is for, to spread things out over days.
- terrycody 5y agoNon related with Libgen and much better when searching IT related books.