Library Genesis

#1

Post by hackertux » Sat, Sep 18, 2021, 3:41 PM UTC

Re: Library Genesis

#2

Post by tyingq » Sat, Sep 18, 2021, 5:02 PM UTC

The cat and mouse game that ensues from this are interesting. One of my family members is now taking a college class where the "book" is a really shitty web app that makes it impossible to view or print more than one page at a time. And there's protection underneath that makes it non-trivial to web scrape and iterate the pages.

This ruins stuff like searching for phrases and so on, and makes learning much harder.

Re: Library Genesis

#3

Post by teddyh » Sat, Sep 18, 2021, 5:11 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #2

The cat and mouse game that ensues from this are interesting. One of my family members is now taking a college class where the "book" is a really shitty web app that makes it impossible to view or print more than one page at a time. And there's protection underneath that makes it non-trivial to web scrape and iterate the pages. This ruins stuff like searching for phrases and so on, and makes learning much harder.

Interesting. I can’t think of any incentives to counteract this. It seems we are slowly moving to a Right to Read future after all.