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Re:LibGen's Bloat Problem by liberalgeneral on Sunday August 21, 2022 @10:50AM (#32540747)
> Has anyone ever stumbled across an executable on LibGen? The article mentioned finding them but I've never seen one.

Here is a list of .exe files in LibGen: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/1c82739a/

And a breakdown of file extensions: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/579e319c/

> And would be nice to have a local copy of most of the books.

Yes! That was my intention—I wasn't advocating for a purge of content but a leaner and more practical version would be amazing.

Re:LibGen's Bloat Problem by macintux on Sunday August 21, 2022 @11:32AM (#32541142)
> Yes! That was my intention—I wasn't advocating for a purge of content but a leaner and more practical version would be amazing.

Your piece doesn't make that obvious at all, and given how many people here are misunderstanding that point, you might want to update it.

Re:LibGen's Bloat Problem by liberalgeneral on Sunday August 21, 2022 @11:57AM (#32541404)
You are right, added a paragraph at the end.
Re:LibGen's Bloat Problem by marcosdumay on Sunday August 21, 2022 @12:11PM (#32541556)
So, 1000 exes and 500 isos (that may be problematic, but most probably aren't). Everything else seems to be what one would expect.

That's way cleaner than I could possibly expect. Do people manually review suspect files?

Re:LibGen's Bloat Problem by wishfish on Sunday August 21, 2022 @02:25PM (#32542965)
Thanks for the lists. I was genuinely curious about the exes. Nice to know where they originate. Interesting that over half of them have titles in Cyrillic. I guess not so many English language textbooks (with included CDs) have been uploaded with the data portion intact.