Nice!
Also, this site tracks the uptime of LG and other pirate libraries: SLUM: The Shadow Library Uptime Monitor.
An alternative is plain old school irc. I’m not kidding.
Connect to irc.irchighway.net then /j #ebooks then !search <author and/or title>
Receive search results via xdcc which gives you the commands to download that stuff.
Or query one of the bots (e. g. @bsk) and get a list of hundreds of thousands of books that are available and search that for what you want.I prefer that over ad infested one click hosters with countdowns, link shortener cascades and captchas. I find and get the stuff much faster by using irc.
it’s pretty cool that folks are still doing it that way. maybe I’ll make an account and suck some dicks
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t #ebooks basically just mirror Libgen?
Among the major book downloading websites, only libgen.li has ads, and only Anna’s Archive has a countdown.
I’m not sure if #ebooks mirrors Libgen. I wouldn’t be surprised if they copy from each other.
I have allergies against ads, countdowns, etc. The interweb is polluted with that stuff and so are most piracy sites.
I find irc to be much easier to use than the alternatives. Just a click to start hexchat and then it auto-connects to the right server and auto-joins the right channel. All within seconds. I even get my animes from irc like I did in 2005. 😁
#ebooks is composed of datahoarders that have a lot of stuff available. You declare the data source you’re getting the book from (e.g. Oatmeal) and then the name of the book.
Neat. If only I actually read what I download. Ngl, the only book that I’ve read start to end in the last 8 years was the easy way to stop smoking by alen carr
I used short essays and short stories to get back into reading, maybe that approach would help you. They’re really old, but try A Modest Proposal or some of the satirical essays by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), they’re short and sweet and inspire a desire for more.
If you like reading older books, check out https://standardebooks.org/. They make nice digital editions of public domain works for free.
For me the amount is not a problem. I used to be an avid reader during my teens, I’ve read under two hundred books during that period, ranging from fiction to romance. The problem usually is that I’m bored reading them now. I’d prefer reading the entirety of GNU C Manual now because it feels more productive. But fret not, when I burn out of IT, quit and touch grass I will absolutely come back to reading my favorite stories, especially the one where a small mousy mouse fell in love with a scary kaiman and they lived happily ever after after surviving through hell together.
I read a ton as a kid too (probably averaged 3-5 books a week for many years), as an adult it’s hard to escape the cycle of wanting to feel productive but I’ve since tried my best to remember that reading for pleasure isn’t meant to be productive in the capitalist sense. It’s an investment in your own happiness, in my opinion, and that can be productive in other ways. Trying new genres or quick “summer reads” has helped me not get bored.
I mostly just don’t read much because I have other hobbies I like more and tend to watch a lot of video content and browse social media. I didn’t really do any of those things much as a teen, other than a bit of Facebook because everyone had it. For me it’s not the priority that it used to be, but I have a book server for easy access when I get the urge.
It’s an investment in your own happiness, in my opinion, and that can be productive in other ways.
I find this profound. Might as well invest in my own happiness right now, it’s gonna be a long night anyways 😁
Did it work?
It worked immediatly as I finished the book and I didn’t smoke for 5 months so far
Piracy may have saved your life!
Edit: replied to gur wrong comment. Sorry
Unforgivable.
Hahaha!!!
What is on libgen? Movies? Animes? Songs?
Books. They have both non-fiction and fiction. Between this and Anna’s Archive I haven’t paid for a book in years.
