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Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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Post by bigbacaloa »

czhu12 wrote: post #198
bigbacaloa wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

What is a non academic book?

This is typical strawman stuff.

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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areoform wrote: post #220
pilimi_anna wrote: post #103

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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)

Thank you so much for your efforts! I have steadily become convinced that we should make a multi-billion year backup of all of humanity's knowledge. All of it. Something that, - is resilient (can survive a nuclear explosion) - requires no power - doesn't require software to read/reboot from - (theoretically) lasts for at least 1 billion years Copying from the Long Now Foundation's projects, I think we can achieve the…

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Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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Post by feanaro »

lxgr wrote: post #114
wlesieutre wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kobo doesn’t force books to use DRM, for example: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-way-of-kings-1 Tor Publishing Group Release Date: August 31, 2010 Imprint: Tor Books ISBN: 9781429992800 Language: English Download options: EPUB 3 (DRM-Free) But if you’re only browsing the books that choose not to use it, it’s certainly a smaller selection

Not even Amazon forces publishers to use it! There are DRM-free Kindle books available. Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to explicitly search for DRM-free titles, but the description for these usually has a sentence like "made available DRM-free at the publisher's request", or is lacking the reference to "use limited to x devices simultaneously".

If Amazon doesn't demand it, then it must be the book publishers that are actually demanding it. So it's not just big bad Amazon after all. That's interesting.

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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Post by qwezxcrty »

czhu12 wrote: post #165

The 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…

In academic books' case, there is a parasite in between the author and reader: the publisher. Which we know they tends to charge exorbitant price for copyediting or digitizing by low-cost labor. The authors receive only a tiny fraction of the sale if not nothing. I will do whatever I can to help the parasites die.

For non-academic books, I don't know how things works, maybe there is a mechanism where the author can gain revenue from selling books. So I always pay for them and the priated copy I downloaded is just for archival.

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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Post by thefilmore »

bytm3 wrote: post #26

The 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??

When you control the mail, you control information.

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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Post by beermonster »

zolland wrote: post #259
1dry wrote: post #234

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That's great of you to buy the book as well, major kudos. I would bet most are not as altruistic as you. Do not traditional libraries and their ebook lending systems, however inconvenient, provide the same service? All one needs to do is be patient until the book you are interested in becomes available. In the meantime, maybe you can check out a different book that is available that you might not have discovered othe…

What is the difference between me waiting for a single book at my library to be passed between 5 people, and me just reading it online?

Presumably the library paid for their copy?

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Also check out OverDrive / Libby

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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Post by askridga666 »

ijkxyz wrote: post #191

oh no, i use z library to make list of books I want to read.

Use can login to 3lib with their .onion domain

http://zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52... and http://loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhem...

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Post by [deleted] »

Blackthorn wrote: post #32
idontwantthis wrote: post #7

Purchased ebooks are like ebooks except you can only read them in Adobe's shitty app, you can't share them with your kids, and you are guaranteed to lose access to them in 10 years or tomorrow. I want to purchase ebooks, but I want to own what I purchase!

My wife has a Kindle, we wanted to buy an ebook to support the author but didn't want to go through Amazon anymore because it's Amazon. So we tried buying from Kobo and surprise surprise, they only work with their ereaders because of their shitty DRM! So now Kobo has permanently lost us as a customer too. Great job there folks!

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