• Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    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.

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      2 months ago

      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.