EDIT: you guys are cool as hell. I’ve found what I needed but I’ll keep this up because other people might use it
There are still some mirrors of Anna’s Archive, Library Genesis, and Z Library up; a list is maintained here:
https://open-slum.org/Use ad and script blockers on your browser, because some of those mirrors are sketchy as hell. The /r/libgen sub is still fairly active, and posters generally call out which mirrors are unsafe.
Wait, is libgen down? </3
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https://mega.nz/folder/cuMwjRyK#eDPayQSdYFwaCh9qr8zzPw/folder/VjExyJQI Here you go! Enjoy!
Highly recommend Palo Alto since with the whole new AI tech bubble it is super relevant.
Thank you!
Outside of more specialized sites you can download epubs from internet archive
I tried internet archive first thing, but they seem to have a weird rental system going on that doesn’t get you download the files?
They have, for books that are still under copyright.[1] But for other books they will let you download them. I don’t recommend downloading ebooks from them however, they are 99.99% of the time just automatic conversions from images, which never goes well.
1: but you can still extract the images if you borrow the book, there are even scripts to do this, as you can probably tell I did this once. Although there is no reason to actually do this, you can just get the books that are under borrow restrictions as PDFs through annas-archive
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I’m not sure, I’ve only used it a few times for that kinda stuff though. Did download Trans Wizard Harriet Porber And The Bad Boy Parasaurolophus recently but maybe it depends on what it is.
https://comlib.encryptionin.space/
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If you got a library card then check your libraries electronic resources page, I got hoopla on my phone and it lets me download ebooks and audiobooks. If you need recommendations last book I read was the black jaccobins on the Haitian revolution
So I stopped using hoopla cause a) the fees they charge libraries are batshit insane, but mostly b) I had a 14 hour flight last year, downloaded a bunch of books, then found out that to listen to downloaded books I still needed Internet. Lame. Perhaps that has changed in the last year, though, so I’m sorry if I’m wrong
I figure with the fees they gonna charge them regardless so I use it or no one else will, the downloaded part never had issues with maybe they changed it. I will say as a criticism almost all books are just tantor media or whatever so maybe the selection isn’t the biggest.
Anna’s archive has a lot of stuff.
Ocean of pdf has quite a bit and The Gutenberg Project has lots of classics.
Mostly slop. Becky Chambers has a new book out though.
https://www.ebookhunter.net/as-you-wake-break-the-shell-by-becky-chambers-epub/
