Libgen.is is back online

An alternative is plain old school irc. I'm not kidding.
Connect to irc.irchighway.net then /j #ebooks then !search <author and/or title>
Receive search results via xdcc which gives you the commands to download that stuff.
Or query one of the bots (e. g. @bsk) and get a list of hundreds of thousands of books that are available and search that for what you want.
I prefer that over ad infested one click hosters with countdowns, link shortener cascades and captchas. I find and get the stuff much faster by using irc.
- it's pretty cool that folks are still doing it that way. maybe I'll make an account and suck some dicks
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't #ebooks basically just mirror Libgen?
  Among the major book downloading websites, only libgen.li has ads, and only Anna's Archive has a countdown.
  
  #ebooks is composed of datahoarders that have a lot of stuff available. You declare the data source you're getting the book from (e.g. Oatmeal) and then the name of the book.
  
  I'm not sure if #ebooks mirrors Libgen. I wouldn't be surprised if they copy from each other.
  I have allergies against ads, countdowns, etc. The interweb is polluted with that stuff and so are most piracy sites.
  I find irc to be much easier to use than the alternatives. Just a click to start hexchat and then it auto-connects to the right server and auto-joins the right channel. All within seconds. I even get my animes from irc like I did in 2005. 😁

Neat. If only I actually read what I download. Ngl, the only book that I've read start to end in the last 8 years was the easy way to stop smoking by alen carr
- I decided to push my gaming to only evenings because I was unhappy with how much time it consumed, so now I read during the day.
  I don't know if you play video games so this may not be helpful to you, but doing this skyrocketed my reading.
- I used short essays and short stories to get back into reading, maybe that approach would help you. They're really old, but try A Modest Proposal or some of the satirical essays by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), they're short and sweet and inspire a desire for more.
  
  If you like reading older books, check out https://standardebooks.org/. They make nice digital editions of public domain works for free.
  
  For me the amount is not a problem. I used to be an avid reader during my teens, I've read under two hundred books during that period, ranging from fiction to romance. The problem usually is that I'm bored reading them now. I'd prefer reading the entirety of GNU C Manual now because it feels more productive. But fret not, when I burn out of IT, quit and touch grass I will absolutely come back to reading my favorite stories, especially the one where a small mousy mouse fell in love with a scary kaiman and they lived happily ever after after surviving through hell together.
- Did it work?
  
  It worked immediatly as I finished the book and I didn't smoke for 5 months so far
- Same here. I've been reading Steven King's The Stand for like 2 years now😆
- Convert them to audiobooks. You don't get the voice acting benefits, but at least you can listen to them while you're doing something else.
  
  Been there, done that.
  
  Convert them to audiobooks
  You can just do that? Easily and in halfway decent quality?
- It's a very good book though

What is on libgen? Movies? Animes? Songs?
- Books. They have both non-fiction and fiction. Between this and Anna's Archive I haven't paid for a book in years.

Is there some more background to this, as in, what happened?
- For years they've managed to keep their indexing (think html, not torrent) online by separating out the indexing from the actual storage. They've only changed URLs once in recent memory. Throughout the years they've stored content in various places. Protected safe havens, compromised websites, and ipfs.
  There are still a lot of places in the world where hosting a link to data is not illegal.
  Well through whatever methods required it looks like the publishers finally managed to shut down the search/hosting on wherever .is was pointing to.
  There is a static IPFS index laying around somewhere so technically the content's still quite available. Along with Torrents.
  Well they finally managed to bring it back up somewhere and I don't even care to go and figure out where that is. Just glad they're still around.
- It's been offline for like a month, maybe more, I haven't kept track. I don't know any details, maybe there's info on their forums, but overall the owners are quite secretive.