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This is an extremely important effort. The LibGen archive contains around 32 TBs of books (by far the most common being scientific books and textbooks, with a healthy dose of non-STEM). The SciMag archive, backing up Sci-Hub, clocks in at around 67 TBs [0]. This is invaluable data that should not be lost. If you want to contribute, here's a few ways to do so. If you wish to donate bandwidth or storage, I personally k…
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Currently (at least for the-eye) it's about IPFS's barrier of entry. I expect LibGen's case to be similar. Most people don't know about it, and if even those that knew about it had to learn how IPFS works etc, they would probably just try to find the book they're looking for elsewhere.
I am not fully aware how IPFS operates, but wouldn't it at least solve the back-end mirroring? Front-end servers would then "only" need to access IPFS for continuous syncing of metadata (for search) and fetching user-requested files (upon request).
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> an unknown alien species Not necessarily for aliens ... but why not keep a backup in a safe place outside the dangers of earthlings ? OTOH, I think a sufficiently advanced alien intelligence will be able to decipher the information structures we use regardless of differences in technology. It's possible though there will be missing links in that archive, which will need to be supplemented with a primary secondary a…
What about a satellite backup in orbit around earth? Maybe an elliptical orbit, coming around a few times a year or something
Is there a way to just download the whole 32TB to your own machine? I see a ton of mirrors but the content seems to be highly fragmented between them
There are ways to do so. The archive is made up of many, many torrents (I believe it's a monthly if not biweekly update of the database). If you have the storage/bandwidth availability for the whole 32TBs, please get in touch and I may be able to help you get the whole deal without too much hassle. Otherwise, just pick some torrents (it would be best to pick them based on torrent health, but they are so many to check…
This is an extremely important effort. The LibGen archive contains around 32 TBs of books (by far the most common being scientific books and textbooks, with a healthy dose of non-STEM). The SciMag archive, backing up Sci-Hub, clocks in at around 67 TBs [0]. This is invaluable data that should not be lost. If you want to contribute, here's a few ways to do so. If you wish to donate bandwidth or storage, I personally k…
> Lastly, you can always contribute books. If you buy a textbook or book, consider uploading it (and scanning it, should it be a physical book) in case it isn't already present in the database. There's no easy solution for scanning physical books, is there?
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I just read the article and your comments here and I'm a bit unsure what's the difference to the Internet Archive. Is it that the IA can archive them but not make them public for legal reasons and The-Eye is more focused on keeping them online and accessible no matter what?
Yes. It is extremely likely IA has the LibGen corpus archived, but darked (inaccessible), to prevent litigation.
This is an extremely important effort. The LibGen archive contains around 32 TBs of books (by far the most common being scientific books and textbooks, with a healthy dose of non-STEM). The SciMag archive, backing up Sci-Hub, clocks in at around 67 TBs [0]. This is invaluable data that should not be lost. If you want to contribute, here's a few ways to do so. If you wish to donate bandwidth or storage, I personally k…
Why not publish the site over IPFS, that would make P2P hosting much simpler?
In my experience ipfs doesn't actually work. I'd love to be proven wrong, but the reason why nobody uses ipfs even when it seems like a great fit is bect it's not really usable.