I knew about library genesis by 2012. It was at least 10 TiB large by then, IIRC. With the amount of Russian language content I got the impression it was more popular in that sphere, but an impressive collection for anyone and not especially secret.
It's in the megathread linked in this comment, but I want to specifically point to https://open-slum.org/ which is basically a status page for different sites dedicated to this purpose, and which I've found helpful.
Life pro tip: the Wikipedia pages for Libgen and Scihub contain up-to-date current links in the right sidebar. Only for the purpose of information and documentation, of course.
I knew about library genesis by 2012. It was at least 10 TiB large by then, IIRC. With the amount of Russian language content I got the impression it was more popular in that sphere, but an impressive collection for anyone and not especially secret.
To be fair, he might have been rather preoccupied at that time.
Is lib still around anymore. I can't find any functioning urls
Anna's Archive includes all of libgen and a lot more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive
Recent MEGATHREAD on status of libgen and alternatives
https://www.reddit.com/r/libgen/comments/1n4vjud/megathread_...
It's in the megathread linked in this comment, but I want to specifically point to https://open-slum.org/ which is basically a status page for different sites dedicated to this purpose, and which I've found helpful.
Lol. I opened that link and was like "hmmm, that UI looks familiar".
I'm pretty sure that's just a frontend for Uptime Kuma https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
There are mirrors on its' wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
Life pro tip: the Wikipedia pages for Libgen and Scihub contain up-to-date current links in the right sidebar. Only for the purpose of information and documentation, of course.
I believe that there's a reddit sub that keeps people up to date with what URLs are, or are not, functioning at any given point in time
libgen.help is frequently updated