FWIW https://libgen.rs already has good search for basically the same books. I like the denser layout that makes better use of whitespace than this HN submission does.
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A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
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#22Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
#23FWIW https://libgen.rs already has good search for basically the same books. I like the denser layout that makes better use of whitespace than this HN submission does.
Has LibGen already caught up to Z-Library? I thought that was still very much a work in progress.
You can use https://annas-archive.org/
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#24It would be even cooler if it found books of "Stanisław Lem" with the correct name as well as its ASCII equivalent "Stanislaw Lem".
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#25I'm looking forward to some new AI system making it possible to generate high quality audiobooks from epub files. This "AI book reader" doesn't exist yet, right?
The Google Books mobile app will read any(?) book in your library, and at least they used to support uploading your own books, although I haven't tried it in a while: https://play.google.com/books/uploads?type=ebooks and in the individual book, tap on it, tap the bamboo menu, choose "Read aloud"
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#26I like reading about IPFS, but I do not really have the time to learn about it and get involved. Last I remember, Z-Library was having an issue scaling the DHS to handle the number of files [1]. Did those issues get resolved? How is it going now? Also, is there anything being done to ensure every file has seeders? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33716560
I’ve dived deep into IPFS and built several prototypes on top of it. It ended up not being performant enough for me, and that was after heavily modifying the codebase so that it was true p2p browser & server (their webrtc transport had a lot of issues and they didn’t seem too interested in it, but my needs required it as a backbone). The security was also a concern, and the scaling had issues. Pinning millions of sma…
Honestly I think Consensys/IPFS/Libp2p is just some corporatized way to derail real P2P and decentralization. Their libraries are total garbage. Lots of complicated code that simply doesn't work. No documentation. I mean look how much IPFS and Libp2p is pumped but IT DOESN'T WORK. IPNS is a joke. All way overengineered crap that does everything but actually nothing. Look at the $$$ and pedigree behind Consensys it's 100% establishment.
Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
#27It would be even cooler if it found books of "Stanisław Lem" with the correct name as well as its ASCII equivalent "Stanislaw Lem".
You may want to try building it locally without their AsciiFoldingFilter and see if it behaves as you wish: https://github.com/zlib-searcher/zlib-searcher/blob/0.6.0/cr...
I don't know tantivy well enough to know if it'd be possible to put the folded in one field and the literal in another and then use the search syntax to choose between them
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#28FWIW https://libgen.rs already has good search for basically the same books. I like the denser layout that makes better use of whitespace than this HN submission does.
I think the best thing about libgen is their detailed filter to search books with covers which makes it really easy to scan books you are looking for assuming you know the cover pages.
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#29Is the catalog on IPFS different to the catalog available via one of the libgen front-ends? I just performed a search on both for one title and it found it right away on a libgen front-end, but not here.
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#30I just did a quick test, it could do with slightly fuzzier searching ('Epub' as an extension got me no result while 'epub' did, a drop down menu with options might be better/simpler for some fields) but, otherwise, it seems functional and useful.
It seems case sensitive on some (or all?) of the input fields. At least for the author field in some of my searches.