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They're actually pretty different sets of books. LibGen/IPFS is heavily biased toward books from the past ~3 decades, especially books that are cracked EPUB's
by crazygringo 2y ago
They're actually pretty different sets of books.
LibGen/IPFS is heavily biased toward books from the past ~3 decades, especially books that are cracked EPUB's and PDF's.
IA seems to be much more scans of library books from ~1930-1980, many of which are out of print and probably only available to you via interlibrary loan, which you might wait a month for.
IA is a huge boon for academic research when you need to go back to midcentury books. I don't know which 500K the IA is being required to remove, but I'm very worried.
- hbbio 2y agoExtremely grateful for IA indeed, and as you say they have more scans that for sure are super useful for research, LLM training, etc. Like this: https://archive.org/details/landau-and-lifshitz-physics-textbooks-series/Vol%201%20-%20Landau%2C%20Lifshitz%20-%20Mechanics%20%283rd%20ed%2C%201976%29/ https://archive.org/details/landau-and-lifshitz-physics-text... Where LibGen only has the first volume in French and Portuguese only...