Anna’s Archive is a non-profit project with two goals:

  • Preservation: Backing up all knowledge and culture of humanity.
  • Access: Making this knowledge and culture available to anyone in the world.

📚 The world’s largest open-source open-data library. ⭐️ Includes Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more. 📈 14,689,463 books, 86,614,187 papers, 2,379,212 comics, 407,042 magazines — preserved forever.

  • –Phase–@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Been using this site ever since zlib went down. Even though zlib did come back, this has become my main book piracy site. Amazing resource for books

  • patchymoose@rammy.site
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    1 year ago

    Just to give perspective on how rapacious the textbook industry has become:

    When I was in nursing school (graduated in May), even though I “purchased” the textbooks, it turned out what I purchased was only a license to access the textbook through their proprietary e-reader app for the semester. As soon as the semester was over, my access to the textbook disappeared.

    This is the model that the textbook companies want. No more reselling used books to even recover a small portion of funds.

    This is why piracy of textbooks is thriving.

  • Cthulhu1@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Stupid question, but I unfortunately don’t have any idea so far about pirating. Would it be enough to just use a VPN when downloading, to not get into trouble?

    • CL4P-TP@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Pretty much. You can do without it in some cases as well… So sticking with a no-logs VPN should be enough.