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by liberalgeneral 4y ago
My target audience is not normal people though, and I don't mean this in the "edgy" sense. The fact that we are having this discussion is very abnormal to begin with, and I think it's great that there are some deviants f
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by liberalgeneral 4y ago
Z-Library has been innovating a great deal in that regard. Sadly they are not as open/sharing as LibGen mirrors in giving back to the community (in terms of database dumps, torrents, and source code).
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by liberalgeneral 4y ago
I think Sci-Hub is the opposite since 1 DOI = 1 PDF in its canonical form (straight from the publisher) so neither duplication nor low-quality is the case.
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by liberalgeneral 4y ago
You are right, added a paragraph at the end.
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by liberalgeneral 4y ago
I don't think you've deserved the downvotes, and I don't think it's a bad idea either; indeed some coordination as to how to seed the collection is really needed. For instance phillm.net maintains a dynamically updated l
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by liberalgeneral 4y ago
Database dumps are available here if you are interested: http://libgen.rs/dbdumps/ libgen_compact_* is what you are probably looking for, but they are all SQL dumps so you'll need to import them into MySQL first.
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by liberalgeneral 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32540854
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by liberalgeneral 4y ago
> While I'd love to mirror whole archive locally, it would really be superfluous because I can only read a couple of quality books at a time anyway, [...] I'd love to agree but as a matter of fact LibGen and Sci-Hub are (forced
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by liberalgeneral 4y ago
> Has anyone ever stumbled across an executable on LibGen? The article mentioned finding them but I've never seen one. Here is a list of .exe files in LibGen: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/1c82739a/ And
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by liberalgeneral 4y ago
Thank you for your efforts! To be clear, I am not advocating for the removal of any files larger than 30 MiB (or any other arbitrary hard limits). It'd be great of course to flag large files for further review, but the current software
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by liberalgeneral 4y ago
If you are referring to my duplication comments, sure (but even then I believe there are duplicates of the exact same edition of the same book). Though the filtering by filesize is orthogonal to editions etc. so has nothing to do with that.
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by liberalgeneral 4y ago
Here is the raw data if you are interested: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/77876d00/
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LibGen's Bloat Problem(liberalgeneral.neocities.org)
286 points by liberalgeneral 4y ago|143 comments