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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.
It’s been offline for like a month, maybe more, I haven’t kept track. I don’t know any details, maybe there’s info on their forums, but overall the owners are quite secretive.
Wait until you hear of Vance criticising Trump.
It is implied that the “earliest indication” of pants is the sculpture on the right, which makes it even more silly. It’s not even ancient cloth that was preserved to prove the existence of pants, but a stone sculpture that showed a person wearing them.
It is unclear to me what’s the method to upload to #ebooks. I’ve uploaded some obscure books to Libgen in the past, so I checked whether they’re available on #ebooks, and they’re not. So… they don’t mirror each other. I checked both UnderNet and IRCHighway, and the latter even directed me to these websites in case I’m looking for textbooks. It doesn’t seem like an adequate replacement for LG, at least for my purposes.
As I’ve said, this is not a big issue with the sites listed on the uptime tracker I linked. Libgen.is and Z-library have neither (the latter has daily download limits per IP), AA has a countdown (not always), and libgen.li has ads (which I had no idea about until I saw other people mentioning it, thanks to uBlock).