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Re:Tell HN: It's easier and faster to pirate an e-book, than... by layer8 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @01:25PM (#34175977)
Unfortunately libgen is pretty hit-or-miss for me, especially for fairly recent, or non-English, or pre-digital-age (badly scanned, if at all present) publications, or stuff like ISO standards.
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Re:Tell HN: It's easier and faster to pirate an e-book, than... by auggierose on Thursday December 29, 2022 @01:48PM (#34176262)
There is a torrent of all ISO standards out there somewhere.
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Re:Tell HN: It's easier and faster to pirate an e-book, than... by layer8 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:04PM (#34176465)
Presumably with some cutoff date?
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Re:Tell HN: It's easier and faster to pirate an e-book, than... by satvikpendem on Friday December 30, 2022 @02:40AM (#34182838)
You might be interested in this then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34176479
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Re:Tell HN: It's easier and faster to pirate an e-book, than... by layer8 on Friday December 30, 2022 @09:18AM (#34185179)
Z-Library, while larger than LibGen, is still very incomplete as well.
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