>Let's go borrow a book at Internet Archive!>*Borrow Unavailable* Aw dangit!>*Borrow Unavailable* Aw dangit!>*Borrow Unavailable* Aw dangit!>*Borrow Unavailable* Aw dangit!>*Borrow Unavailable* Aw dangit!>*Borrow Unavailable* Aw dangit!
inb4 the thread becomes a (justified) shit on chuck wending thread.
>>23540998He’s a fat homosexual with AIDs.
>>23541050It is a compelling argument.>>23541002AIDS is an acronym. The s doesn't need to be lowercase. It carries equal weight to the other letters.
>>23540979Just steal it then
>>23541054You have AIDs, faggot.
>>23541054>AIDs Wrong. He needs social aid, because he is mentally retarded and a burden on society.
I mostly read old academic journals from there and haven't noticed any change.
>>23541094It depends on what you want to read. This can even extend to me most kitschy of books.
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>>23540979If you're patient it's relatively easy to find a copy of the hobbit at thrift stores. Most thrift stores sell paperbacks for anywhere from 25 cents to a dollar max
>>23540979Seriously when did it become so many borrows? I could have sworn it wasn't like that before.
I love how utterly retarded the search system is. If I so much as dare to write a single kanji I will be hit with billions of random Chink shit, if I write a hanzi then I will be hit with Japanese shit, and even aside from this almost nothing is catalogued properly and most of the time when you search for something you get drowned in a billion newspaper magazines or other random data that doesn't share even a single word with what you were searching for.
>>23542663I don't search on archive.org directly. I just type "[title] + archive" into google and something always comes up.
>>23540979>>23542066Probably ever since they overstepped their bounds during the pandemic and got sued to oblivion by the entire writers guild.Shit sucks but they walked into it. A sad state of things.
I hope no one wonders why we just download e-books.
>>23540979>>23541152Honest question, why not just download the book somewhere else? I've borrowed from the Internet Archive before when I didn't want to download a bunch of books I wouldn't read again (some stuff for a school project) but unless it's something you're going to read in one sitting why not just take 5 minutes to download it and keep forever?>>23543576It's funny that the writer's guild specifically fucked over people who either didn't know how to actually pirate or who were trying to stay more or less ethical, as opposed to the impossible task of taking down real book piracy sites
>>23540979It's annoying when I can't pirate some books or I can't have the version I need.
I tried to buy an ebook once, from like ebook dot com or something. One of the most needlessly obtuse activities I've ever attempted. Had to fight for a refund.I will pirate now
>>23543693>why not just download the book somewhere else?Any suggestions where?
>>23544303zlib, libgen, anna's????how can you not know the most basic shit
>>23544303annas-archive.gs has had basically everything I've ever looked for on there, the only thing I can remember having trouble with is Carmilla (pre-Dracula vampire novel from 1872). If you want a specific version of a book you can search by ISBN. Has some rare/banned books as well so you'll have no trouble with The Hobbit.
>>23545314Oh also, since you might be new to e-reading outside of using the Internet Archive's own reading thing. I like epub files over pdfs, I used to like pdfs more but epubs control with the arrow keys so they're more comfortable if you're not using a mouse. The only thing is you might have to download something like Nice File Viewer to read them. Also pdfs may be better for books with images
>>23545314only for english
