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A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

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Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

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Is 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.

> libgen front-ends Libgen is not the same as Z-library, there are many books on Z that are not available on libgen.

Where does "Z" exist as an entity, and how does one add books to it, or figure out what books belong to Z or not?

Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

#102

What exactly is Z-Library right now? The domains were seized, and there doesn't seem to be a way to access the library or add new books to it. Is it now simply a collection that exists alongside libgen? Is it being run elsewhere? Does the Ipfs mirror get updated from somewhere?

There is a discord server now, where you will find all your answers, plus some.

Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

#103

What exactly is Z-Library right now? The domains were seized, and there doesn't seem to be a way to access the library or add new books to it. Is it now simply a collection that exists alongside libgen? Is it being run elsewhere? Does the Ipfs mirror get updated from somewhere?

I've always been able to access it via tor which is operating normally.

Just be sure to confirm a disposable email address with them or they'll never let you in. Registering an account by itself is no longer enough when using tor and their website will block you and not tell you why.

Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

#104

What exactly is Z-Library right now? The domains were seized, and there doesn't seem to be a way to access the library or add new books to it. Is it now simply a collection that exists alongside libgen? Is it being run elsewhere? Does the Ipfs mirror get updated from somewhere?

There is a discord server now, where you will find all your answers, plus some.

Where does one find an invite to it?

Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

#105

What exactly is Z-Library right now? The domains were seized, and there doesn't seem to be a way to access the library or add new books to it. Is it now simply a collection that exists alongside libgen? Is it being run elsewhere? Does the Ipfs mirror get updated from somewhere?

There is a discord server now, where you will find all your answers, plus some.

If that's the case, then providing the answers should be pretty easy. Can you tell us what they are?

Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> my own solution that did everything I wanted Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter! (I really would appreciate any pointers to additional info on something that actually works...)

I’m building a connectivity lib in Golang for relay-assisted p2p over tcp. The implementation is simple, uses only a single network connection when idle, and establishes connections very quickly and reliably. Downside is it’s not decentralized and it’s also not UDP, in case that’s your thing. Oh and BYO auth.

Please reach out if it fits your use case.

Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

#107

Is it dangerous to host sites like this? I love making tools like this but worry about the repercussions

Seeing that the US managed to extradite a British citizen from his own country for hosting links, I would definitely say so. The right way is to do this is to host this on tor or similar and only advertise it on the internet behind a good vpn.

It's ridiculous that this is what people need to do to help others, but that's what ridiculous laws and circus courts get you.

Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

#108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Working on this now, cherry-picked audio from such AI systems abound, but submitting arbitrary text for audio synthesis requires a much higher quality bar to be listenable. Planning to have something out early 2023.

What's the best off the shelf solution you've found? I've been trying a few different apps to read my queued articles to me, but all of the voices are awful.

I wrote my own script to send article text through GCP text to speech, which I then put on a private podcast feed. If you go through the voices there’s some decent ones. I also found that speeding up audio in podcast app greatly improves listen ability. I also find picking an AI voice with an accent (for me British or aussi or Indian) helps trick my brain into tolerance.

However I also got tired of manually extracting text and running my script so now I mostly use: https://www.listenlater.fm though on this I just use the “Matthew”. For 5-10 min articles it doesn’t really matter, you get used to the voices so long as you can do something else in the meantime lol.

Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

#109
post #29

Is 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.

Z-library began as a Libgen mirror but split off and stopped sharing uploads. It's kind of scummy, but I guess that just means people need to put more effort into uploading its contents back to Libgen.

Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

#110

Is it dangerous to host sites like this? I love making tools like this but worry about the repercussions

Anglo countries tend to aggressively extradite, even for things that are not major crimes by their own law, to the US over copyright related offences. I'd tread with extreme caution.
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