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The world’s largest open-source open-data library. ⭐️ Includes Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more. 📈 19,348,010 books, 86,614,159 papers, 2,379,209 comics, 508,527 magazines — preserved forever.

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[–] GFGJewbacca@ag.batlord.org 18 points 1 year ago

I love that site! I've gotten so many books from there. Thanks for making sure more people know about it.

I recommend pairing that with Calibre to manage all the ebooks you get, and to convert them into useable formats for your device(s).

[–] anon_water@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks I was sad after z-lib went down.

[–] Diglett983@lemmy.pt 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can still access z-lib via Tor.

[–] rolandtb303@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

this is why i like onions :)

[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you recommend a guide?

[–] stonemilker@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Here are the official links: https://zlibrary-global.se/z-access#useful_link_tab. I would recommend just opening the .onion link (last tab on the page) with the Tor Browser in Safe mode and logging in with an anonymous e-mail and random password. Nowadays I'd rather use Anna's Archive, though, it has most of the Z-Library database indexed anyway

[–] idkman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

Damn Anna, you so hot! I'm gonna kiss you!

[–] dumfuq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

awesome. Thanks for sharing. If & when libgen or zlib is down, I'll try this out.

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[–] TeryVeneno@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

If you use sites like this and you have epubs and pdfs to contribute, make sure that you do! I recently uploaded a book I had access to from my school days for others to use through libgen. I had to search really hard to find it when I didn’t have a lot of money for textbooks. I hope what I uploaded helps others. Be sure to contribute!

[–] totallynotfbi@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From what I understand, isn't this site's Z-Library content taken from the torrent dumps when the site originally got taken off the clearweb? In that case, won't it be a bit out-of-date?

[–] stonemilker@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

They index results from five sources and update the main ones (two LibGen forks) monthly. They mirrored the Z-Library database before the website was seized (end of November 2022), indexed the new .onion addresses and haven't updated the dataset since because they're waiting for the situation to stabilize in order to figure out a way to regularly fetch new stuff from there too, as far as I know

[–] ellipse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Also libgen iirc

[–] bobbyllama@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

damn, this looks pretty amazing. thanks for sharing!

[–] Gork@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got a book that has been out of print for decades that I've painstakingly scanned in page by page. Is there a way I can donate it to the archive?

upload it to archive.org and if you want send me the pdf in DM and I will take care of uploading it to Anna's archive

[–] HowlsSophie 1 points 1 year ago

Checked this out today, love love love! Alwaya used Zlib and the app still works fine but I can find pretty much anything with Libgen added to the search.

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