It is difficult to determine the quality of content on websites like z-lib and libgen because the only available indicators are size and a general description of the upload, which can make all content appear similar and leave users unable to differentiate between high and low quality content.
A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
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#132Well, nice work. But poor authors...
There is no evidence that piracy hurts authors. It might hurt publishers (although finding evidence of that has been hard too).
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#133Earlier 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.
iOS: Voice Dream Reader. Use Ivona “Amy” or “Joey”. Also allows annotations such as comments and highlights and exporting your annotations.
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#134Earlier 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.
And best open source TTS engine I found so far is Coqui TTS. Demos here:
Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
#135jesus cloudflare getting in the way.
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#136I hope every project you work on has it's source code stolen resulting in failure. And this is coming from a pretty crappy person, but this website sure does love stealing from authors (so that it can enjoy the fruits of their labor).
A wealth-indexed fee averaging about $5/mo per household in the US and collected through broadband providers could provide access to every work ever published, pay authors, and eliminate both the need and practice of piracy. The publishing industry prefers, however, to hoard its Smaug-gold, make criminals of the curious, deny access both to the vast majority of the population and to the vast majority of works, all to…
I am opposed to copyright in its current form, but this is a very naïve suggestion. How exactly do you distribute the fee among authors? Who collects it? How does dispute resolution work, if I don't feel like I'm being compensated fairly? Can I opt out if I don't read books? What if everyone opts out and just continues pirating?
Let's say I just published one hundred books of semi-AI generated bad fiction. When can I expect my cheques?
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#137jesus cloudflare getting in the way.
>You do not have access to zlib.zu1k.com. The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site.
I think I hit the cf limit after 10 searches.
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#138jesus cloudflare getting in the way.
Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
#139FWIW 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.
But there's no IPFS link there.
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#140Access denied
Error code 1020
You do not have access to zlib.zu1k.com.
The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site.