I'm pretty handy at sourcing ebooks that aren't listed on LibGen/Zlib.

Theory and history books will be given preference if I get inundated with requests but I'll try to find whatever you're looking for.

Comment with the full title and author of each book, each on a separate line.

Please don't request "everything from x author" or "the books in the x series" because then I have to guess as to which books are in that series or I have to look up every book myself, which adds a lot of unnecessary work for me.

  • President_Obama [they/them]
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    10 months ago

    Where do you get them from, then? Any specific sites or are you just googling to find PDFs?

    • ReadFanon [any, any]
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      10 months ago

      I do look on Google but unless there's stuff uploaded to Scribd then it's pretty useless. I do most of my searching on the Russian web to find pirated books.

  • SensualHonkey [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Do you happen to have Yakov Chernikhov's Architectural Fantasies it's full of beautiful constructivist art

    • ReadFanon [any, any]
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      10 months ago

      I can only find it in Russian, it appears as though there's no english language ebook available on the internet. I've uploaded the Russian language copy to LibGen under non-fiction (good thing that it's mostly illustrations, eh?)

      You can either wait for about a day or two and it'll be available on the main LibGen website or if you can't wait then here's a link:

      https://library.bz/main/uploads/97580038EA451F34DC51D886224B575D

      The generic login to access the upload queue is username: genesis password: upload

    • ReadFanon [any, any]
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      10 months ago

      I look on a range of Russian websites including VK, eruditor, twirpx, piratebooks.ru, as well as sites like pdfdrive, oceanofpdf, ebook-hunter.org, sanet, torrent files sites, archive.org (there's a whole process of setting up calibre with de-DRM tools, editing the archive link to download the acsm file, downloading it in an older version of Adobe Digital Editions, then ripping the file that Adobe produces...), Scribd, and occasionally IRC.

      There are the obvious sources like Zlib and LibGen which is where I start from, unless it's a particularly old or rare book.

      Nothing I do is particularly special. It's just time consuming and it takes a bit of familiarity the quirks of each site, signing up burner accounts with some of the websites, and prioritising sites based on the likelihood of which will have the ebook in question. For example, that request for Chernikhov's Architectural Fantasies wasn't appearing in any of the ideal sites and due to its age and being a Russian book, I found a Russian-language copy of it on VK by searching for the Russian title of the work there because VK, due to their userbase, has a strong inclination to host Russian ebooks and I figured that the person requesting it would be most interested in seeing the illustrations so in this case it worked out.

  • mazdak
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    10 months ago

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    • ReadFanon [any, any]
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      10 months ago

      It looks like nobody has digitised Chains by Barbusse yet :(

      Asimov's annotated Paradise Lost is already available on LibGen though.