Thank you! Another commenter mentioned they found a book by the same name on MAM, but by an author I didn't see mentioned on the publisher's site, so it's very likely a separate work by someone else. It is fairly huge, so making a digital scan is a project in and of itself.
This is the official URL.
From the excerpts on the site, there wasn't any 1 specific author (I didn't see anyone with the name you mentioned in my skim), but several contributors, since it was a Kickstarter project funded by interested parties who wanted a modernized and compiled version of all 13 volumes in 1 book.
Thank you either way! You didn't have to do that, but you did which I'm very thankful for! ☺
I've been looking for a digital copy of Kronecker Wallis' text, "Euclid's Elements", on the major sites (AA, ZL, LG, VK, IRC, Scribd, Mobilism, rutracker, Ocean of PDF, etc.) but they've all come up empty.
A lot of the books I usually look for can't be found on the major sites and while I've made a few (several) book requests on Z-Library, it may take months or years for those to come to fruition.
How do you all find more obscure/niche books or newer texts? The book in question costs £200 excluding shipping, so buying it isn't in my 2023-2024 budget. There are also a ton of books from the Library of Congress I'd LOVE to have uploaded eventually, but that's easier said than done.
Are there sites/trackers dedicated towards making digital scans of physical books (like the Internet Archive)?
Thank you!
That's what I read as well. You would think they would've gotten some leeway since it was done during an event comparable to war and they were following the footsteps of other digital libraries. They had a pretty stellar reputation and system in place for nearly a decade already, so I can only assume that they were simply waiting for an opportunity to target them.
I hope this is where it stops. Current laws aren't too favourable towards projects like these and the IA depends heavily on donations so I don't think they'd be able to withstand multiple drawn out court battles. I'm just waiting to see what gets affected exactly and to what extent.
I didn't say it was dead, most of its domains were seized by the US, so they were in fact run off like dogs. I made a post a month or two back mentioning the new domain they have.
Lmao I'm so sorry! I realised afterwards what was happening, but have no idea how to fix it since I'm still fairly new to Lemmy. I hope it didn't inconvenience you too much!
Sci-Hub stopped adding new articles since its court case and Z-Lib had most of its domains seized by the US. I didn't say they were dead, but tried to convey that they were attacked and forced to either cease their operations or shrink significantly.
Another one is close to biting the dust. Sci-Hub is out, Z-Lib got ran off like a dog and now IA is going to remove a host of books because these publishers just can't stop being money-hungry bastards.
This is why I support piracy. Knowledge should be free. To go after a nonprofit organization that just wants to make digital books and other formats accessible to everyone when majority of uploads can't be downloaded only borrowed, is just so devious and greedy.
I'm so tired of it. Laws around copyright and intellectual property need to be reformed. I feel so helpless :c
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Wow! This is incredible! Thank you so much!
The only IRC I've accessed was via IPT and some other kind where you had to get an app in order to use and set it up. The book I was looking for around that time couldn't be found and the books I'm searching for now are a decade or so old (before 2010 I think) and obscure. Would they have magazine issues for July, 2023? I'd be happy to shoot my shot if that's the case. Who knows, maybe they'll surprise me.
I checked it out and learned that that service isn't available at my local university. I'd have to leave the country and go to a foreign university for that.
But thank you so much for your help! I didn't even know archivists were a thing.
Oh thank you! I'll join when the next available time slot arrives. 😊
It's the reason why I love piracy and OER so much! Sci-Hub was such a great help when I wanted to read research papers and archive when I wanted to read an important article. It's disheartening the way information is being so heavily gatekeeped and access to products being commercialized using a subscription-based model rather than a one and done deal.
I used to be on IPT but they disabled my account earlier this year after I forgot to login within the 3 month time frame. I tried reaching out via IRC and got banned because my connection kept rejoining(?) the channel while I left for about 30 min. until an admin/mod finally logged online and thought I was a bot. Doesn't MAM require proof of seeding and whatnot? I don't have a seedbox so I don't think I'd be able to join :(
I'm happy you're here! I only use Calibre since I'm not too familiar with DRMs and their removal. I wouldn't even mind buying a copy myself honestly, but they aren't available where I'm from and to order online would cost me a leg and an arm due to shipping, clearance and all the various taxes added on to imports.
Sadly, these books aren't available at the library. Libraries where I'm from depend on book donations, so many of the books don't go beyond 2010-2015 and anything published after those years are impossible to get unless you order them on Amazon or via the magazine website.
Thank you so much for your reply! It seems I double posted accidentally so I'll be deleting this thread. Would you mind reposting it on the other instead so I can give a proper response?
Thank you, but I already checked AA and unfortunately, it didn't have any of them. Ebook3000 used to have most magazine issues, but it finally shutdown some time this year and I have no clue if it's permanently gone or they changed their URL. Ebook-Hunter is a bit of a letdown compared to it, but I suppose beggars can't exactly be choosers.
Working link for Z-Lib: https://zlibrary-asia.se/
There're books I'm searching for that haven't been uploaded to the mainstream ebook sites (libgen, z-lib, AA, etc.) mainly lifestyle magazines and non-fiction books. I checked the links in the megathread and those sites don't have them either. So where do you all go when all else fails?
I'd love to learn how to pirate books on my own, since my only exposure is ripping books from The Internet Archive with Calibre. I've made book requests to Z-Library, but who knows when an uploader may get to it. VK used to be one of my go-to sources for magazines and novels, but it's harder to find legitimate links and many of the older uploaders seemed to have disappeared. Twirpx doesn't seem to get uploads frequently enough, so I've really only used it to upload new books myself or download outdated texts.