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Re:Z Library by ivanche on Sunday November 28, 2021 @10:39AM (#29369701)
Collect (I presume you mean download?) is an easy part and I agree one can download thousands of books in 24h. Skimming is very different from reading is very different from learning. If you want to skim titles/headlines then yes it's a limitation. I'd just argue it's not what books are for.
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Re:Z Library by humanistbot on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:24AM (#29370132)
> I'd just argue it's not what books are for.

Who are you to decide what books are for, especially on a pirate site? I use libgen for research. Trying to figure out if a book is good for what I'm looking for is hard! In a traditional physical library, I'd sit in the stacks and scan through sometimes dozens of books before finding what I'm looking for. Then I'd check out those few books and read them more in depth.

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Re:Z Library by CGamesPlay on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:18AM (#29370064)
Other people deciding what books are for is one of the main reasons libgen exists!
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