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Book PDFs?
| I heard that libraries sometimes have pdfs available but I don't understand how that works. There's also another book format to search for that might have more results. I need to check what it was
| libgen should have a lot of academic reading, but a lot of popular fiction too.
| if you're a manga person, I heavily recommend the Tachiyomi client, it's a FOSS manga reader with extensions to bind it to various online manga libraries
| >>7cf7bd other popular formats are epub / fb2, mobi q bit as well. libgen is best recommendation, but also open its page on wiki — there are alternatives mentioned
| Libgen.rs and the other libgen sites!
| Project Gutenberg
| >>828921 gonna second this suggestion, Project Gutenberg is great
I suggest looking into .epub files instead of .pdf files, .epub makes reading on mobile/tablet/computer way more comfortable by letting you adjust text size, background, font, etc.
| For old fiction books try Standard Ebooks (https://standardebooks.org/). It's basically Project Gutenberg books with better typography and cover art and all that. No PDF version though, but why would you read a PDF anyway when you can read EPUB?
If you still need ebook files conversion, use Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/). It's a desktop app. It can also rip DRM out if you buy books from Amazon etc.
http://libgen.rs/ for full pirate mode yo ho ho.
| If you like reading fantasy/science fiction and want to get ebooks legit for free, Tor's ebook club (https://ebookclub.tor.com/) send out free ebooks every month or so. I discovered a few new series I like from it.
Just make sure you set your country to US when you sign up. Don't worry, they never check.
| Damn just realised danger/u/ doesn't like putting links in braces. Here's the links I posted.
https://standardebooks.org
https://calibre-ebook.com
https://libgen.rs
https://ebookclub.tor.com
| Gonna screenshot this thread to death
| b-ok.cc
| https://archive.org has a lot available in a slightly more legal way. a lot of those books are only available through their browser based checkout bullshit so you can't use it on a kindle. between that site and libgen I have encountered a total of 1 unavailable book in the past ~4 years.
| >>829354 anyone know what happened to the lawsuit they got for letting infinite people check out the same book at the start of COVID
| Also archive orgs checkout system is because they're a """library""" and actually have X physical copies so they can theoretically let X people check out that book, when they stopped doing that for COVID they found themselves against a big ol lawsuit for piracy
| >>829718
Seems to be in a limbo. Latest articles discussing it I've found are these two, but I'm honestly not lawyer enough to make heads or tails of it:
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/88001-internet-archive-rejects-publishers-stonewalling-claim-in-scanning-lawsuit.html
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211031/23501047858/internet-archive-would-like-to-know-what-association-american-publishers-is-hiding.shtml
| Ooh interesting
So tldr is IA wants communication documents between AAP and the plaintiffs, but AAP is trying everything they can to refuse as far as I can tell
IANAL and all that
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| I got a tablet and I want to get into reading books again. Where can I find PDFs free of charge? Torrents or something?