Library.nu, RIP. Where now?

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My beloved Library.nu (formerly gigapedia), has given up the ghost. AAAAARG is still around. But what else is out there?
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Library.nu, Book Downloading Site, Targeted In Injunctions Requested By 17 Publishers

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/1 ... ?ref=books

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There's quite a bunch of recent fiction (some non-fiction too) in the Ebook forum of this BBS (or just search for authors' names):

http://mobilism.org/


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Library.no dead? Noooooooooo :( They were posting loads of quite rare books.
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Yep. Great editorial on the "disappearing virtual library":

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinio ... 04790.html
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the link on this site takes you to a pretty good place where you can find a ton of cool books:
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ ... ib.rus.ec/
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Library.nu reincarnated? There are some hints here: http://e-library-free.blogspot.com/2012 ... nated.html

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cheerios wrote:the link on this site takes you to a pretty good place where you can find a ton of cool books:
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ ... ib.rus.ec/
This is quite wonderful. I've just downloaded a Pauline Kael reader (the book's title being, as it happens, The Pauline Kael Reader) which has 3591 pages.

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now you go to legalreads.com and enjoy thousands of same and newer ebooks :D

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That takes me to google books, which for obvious reasons is no substitute.
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@op

try ebookoid.com once you login its a goldmine, checkout subjects too

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ihm wrote:@op

try ebookoid.com once you login its a goldmine, checkout subjects too
thanks for that.

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Lao Tsu Ben wrote:
ihm wrote:@op

try ebookoid.com once you login its a goldmine, checkout subjects too
thanks for that.
Yeah, nice. Right off the bat I found sth I'd been looking for for a while.
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That takes me to google books, which for obvious reasons is no substitute.
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Ebookoid?
It works with me.

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ebookoid is trying to charge now, which wouldn't bug me except that payment options are super weird.
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Yes! Before, it was easy, you could send them amazon giftcards, but now I don't even bother. I'm going to try to figure out those payment options one of these days, though.

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I still think ebookoid is pretty cool. Starting in the beginning of January, they will be a membership run site, $10 a month gets you UNLIMITED books to download, they are promoting it as an "All you can read" thing because people were complaining about paying $0.99 for a book...