oh no, i use z library to make list of books I want to read.
ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amazon also does this right? But unlike kindle, kobo devices can easily have libre readers installed on them that can read whatever format you like. I threw koreader on my kobo and haven't looked back. It communicates with my private opds server to download books I have, ah, acquired, and converted to epub. Or sometimes PDF. I think it can even read MOBI though, i vaguely remember accidentally uploading some to my ko…
koreader also works on my Kindle. This used to belong to my wife, and got passed to me, and got rooted by me, and koreader installed on it, thus keeping it out of a landfill or generating more e-waste.
Good for you then. Kindle devices have decent hardware but is crippled by the dystopian Amazon firmware on it. It forces upgrades, with no way to opt out, and Amazon have the ability to remotely wipe your books for no reason.
Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
#193Fortunately someone had the foresight to make a backup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32972923 Z-library were in it for commercial gain (you could access a certain number of books but to get more you had to pay for a subscription). They started out as a fork of library genesis, whose mission has always been strictly non-commercial and about providing free access to everyone without limits. Hopefully this will…
Holy shit! Did not see this coming, but glad we saved this collection just in time. (I'm Anna, the one who made the backup). We are working on hosting this collection, as well as saving other large collections. Please consider supporting us, donation details at http://pilimi.org (we'll set up a patreon-like system soon)
Do you backup user accounts and bookmarks too?
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#194The mental gymnastics happening in this thread to justify pirating books is pretty disappointing. Especially on HN, where I think a lot of our livelihoods depend on writing and charging for closed source code that can technically be infinitely distributed. How many of us would be happy to open source all our code, provide easy ways for people to download and deploy, and then leave a PayPal link in the footer asking f…
A lot of our livelihoods depend on access to books and journal articles that are sold at exorbitant prices by scientific publishers for whom we do all the work of editing, copyediting, reviewing, and writing ... Not all of os work in the well funded USA ... I have to go through a paywall to read my own old articles ...
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#195z-lib.org is responsible for me buying more books in the past couple years than I’ve ever bought. It essentially acted like an in-person bookstore for me that allowed me to browse a book to determine whether it was worth buying. Before z-lib, I generally tended toward avoiding wasting money. I guess I’m back to that again. (I like paper copies of tech books and Kindle copies of novels so I can sync reading and highli…
I too like to buy books to have a physical copy. I almost always buy them used though, which probably doesn't help the copyright holder at all either.
There are plenty of other sites to find books to skim before buying.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
It'll depend on where you live and what your goals are. If you have free-time to tinker and enjoy that kind of thing, you can build something very fast and reliable and prevent e-waste by building your own storage server with used parts on the cheap. If you're in the United States, electricity is cheap enough that you can pick up much older SAS drives for really low $/TB cost and have it be worthwhile. For example, I…
Can I ask what you pay per kWh? Have you put a power meter on that setup? I've always wanted to do something like this but electricity here is AU$0.27/kWh, and my house is poorly oriented for solar panels unfortunately.
It's a little under $0.12 per kWh here. I haven't gotten around to putting up a meter on it since fully completing it, but in the past, with a bit over half the drives + all of the ram and everything else, it was peaking a bit over 400w -- I'd guess like +- 700ish right now?
So, give or take, with a stupid build like mine, here, it's like .7 * 720 * $0.118 = ~$60.
Another thing to note is that mine stay spinning instead of idling for much lower energy consumption, cause I've always read that the stop-start cycle is what really tends to kill the drives.
I think it could be a lot more affordable/justifiable with:
- fewer, larger drives (6-8TB each?)
- fewer, larger DIMMs (16-32GB each?)
- perhaps slower, more energy-efficient drives (5400rpm?)
Also, I have seen some of the Atom C2750/C2758 boards for fairly cheap here.
If you don't need an absurd amount of RAM/PCIe/CPU, that could be a good option to save another bit of power.
> and my house is poorly oriented for solar panels unfortunately.
And yeah, same, unfortunately. Ironically, despite being in Florida, I barely get any sun; my entire neighborhood is filled with massive trees, lol.
I'd still like to look into solar at some point when I've got more time & money, though. It's been awful the past couple of hurricane seasons because of the trees -- something always seems to fall and cause a bunch of damage, so I'd like to cut down a few of the scary ones anyway (I am sorry trees!)
Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
#197The U.S. Postal Inspection Service supports and protects the U.S. Postal Service and its customers by enforcing the laws that defend the nation’s mail system from illegal or dangerous use. What do they have to do with ebooks???
That same Postal Inspection Service also had a large role in the creation of the Secret Service. Highly trained and well-armed mailmen :)
One interesting little fact from history is that the Postal Inspection Service was one of the first bulk buyers of the Tommy Gun (Thompson submachine gun).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_submachine_gun#Early_...
Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
#198The mental gymnastics happening in this thread to justify pirating books is pretty disappointing. Especially on HN, where I think a lot of our livelihoods depend on writing and charging for closed source code that can technically be infinitely distributed. How many of us would be happy to open source all our code, provide easy ways for people to download and deploy, and then leave a PayPal link in the footer asking f…
A lot of our livelihoods depend on access to books and journal articles that are sold at exorbitant prices by scientific publishers for whom we do all the work of editing, copyediting, reviewing, and writing ... Not all of os work in the well funded USA ... I have to go through a paywall to read my own old articles ...
Would you be in favor of purging all non academic books from piracy sites?
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
Holy shit! Did not see this coming, but glad we saved this collection just in time. (I'm Anna, the one who made the backup). We are working on hosting this collection, as well as saving other large collections. Please consider supporting us, donation details at http://pilimi.org (we'll set up a patreon-like system soon)
How do you actually host something like this without being shut down, arrested, etc? Do you pay your server provider in bitcoin or something?
You could host your stuff via tor? And have people do most of the downloading via bittorent?
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#200I have tried my best to skim through all the discussions and no one seems to have noticed the demand for zlibrary in third world countries. In a country like China, it is the only avenue for most researchers and students at the bottom to gain expertise. When you talk about classism, you should not ignore such groups.