Z Library

Author: gh0std3v

Score: 140

Comments: 36

Date: 2021-11-28 02:25:04

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kiryin wrote at 2021-11-28 10:42:57:

For those who may not know, this is a front-end to LibGen. I like the search feature more and use it now and then, but for me the 5-downloads-per-24h limitation is usually quite limiting.

dredmorbius wrote at 2021-11-28 11:30:44:

The recommendations are also generally good.

Z-Library for discovery, LibGen for fulfillment!

ivanche wrote at 2021-11-28 14:19:16:

Why is that limiting? Can you honestly read more than 5 books in 24h?

tacon wrote at 2021-11-28 17:02:51:

I have hundreds of books I want to dump if I substitute the digital version on my disk. When in discard mode, I easily hit the 10/day limit of a free account. But that is what the favorites list is for, to spread things out over days.

solarkraft wrote at 2021-11-28 14:45:49:

Yes, I can both skim and collect more than 5 books in 24 hours.

ivanche wrote at 2021-11-28 15:39:01:

Collect (I presume you mean download?) is an easy part and I agree one can download thousands of books in 24h. Skimming is _very_ different from reading is _very_ different from learning. If you want to skim titles/headlines then yes it's a limitation. I'd just argue it's not what books are for.

humanistbot wrote at 2021-11-28 16:24:35:

> I'd just argue it's not what books are for.

Who are you to decide what books are for, especially on a pirate site? I use libgen for research. Trying to figure out if a book is good for what I'm looking for is hard! In a traditional physical library, I'd sit in the stacks and scan through sometimes dozens of books before finding what I'm looking for. Then I'd check out those few books and read them more in depth.

CGamesPlay wrote at 2021-11-28 16:18:44:

Other people deciding what books are for is one of the main reasons libgen exists!

miki123211 wrote at 2021-11-28 12:41:29:

Friends have been telling me it's generally easier to find stuff on z-lib than it is on libgen.

Does it have a better search engine? Does it have more books than libgen? Are they just wrong?

dorchadas wrote at 2021-11-28 12:54:43:

From my experiences with it, in LibGen you have to search exactly what you want. A simple typo ruins it. Z-library is a better in that regards, so typos don't really ruin the search, allowing you to find stuff more easily.

Rompect wrote at 2021-11-28 13:34:10:

I don't know whether they have a different dataset of books, but the search engine is definitely vastly superior. Not only in looks, but most importantly in terms of results.

captn3m0 wrote at 2021-11-28 14:15:01:

I think Z-lib indexes libgen's recent uploads much faster, so it makes a difference for newer books.

terrycody wrote at 2021-11-29 03:08:17:

Non related with Libgen and much better when searching IT related books.

ninchuka wrote at 2021-11-28 13:06:33:

I just use tor when I download off it and spam changing my IP when it doesnt work till it does

janeroe wrote at 2021-11-28 07:16:31:

Promotion of piracy web-sites on the front of HN, nice. While we're at it, gen.lib.rus.ec is a good one, too (less fancy but without the 5 books/day limitation).

madars wrote at 2021-11-28 04:08:54:

Isn't this just a commercialized version of Library Genesis?

sixtyfourbits wrote at 2021-11-28 10:53:28:

Correct. Library genesis itself (see

https://libgen.rs/

https://libgen.fun/

) is run by volunteers on a strictly non-commercial basis and does not charge for access or accounts.

abyssin wrote at 2021-11-28 08:29:07:

There’s fiction books on Z Library that you can’t find on Library Genesis, especially in French for what I know.

agluszak wrote at 2021-11-28 10:46:53:

You know that libgen has a separate category for fiction, right?

agumonkey wrote at 2021-11-28 11:20:41:

Even outside of this genre, I found some titles I couldn't on libgen at times, which made me very confused about the system is structured.

exdsq wrote at 2021-11-28 04:24:55:

I was _so_ excited at the prospect of Z being on the front page, but sadly the wrong one for me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_notation

xylol wrote at 2021-11-28 11:24:00:

Haha same here but sadly the wrong one for me

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(video_game)

tacon wrote at 2021-11-28 17:11:26:

They have most of the Z books listed in Wikipedia:

https://book4you.org/book/1057065/129aaa

https://book4you.org/book/715472/efd9e3

https://book4you.org/book/1170163/0d5082

exdsq wrote at 2021-11-28 18:32:37:

That's fun, thank you!

czottmann wrote at 2021-11-28 13:26:51:

I was under the impression that (at least the books section) is a giant free-for-all download archive, i.e. pirated works (== download epubs of commercial novels you didn't pay for).

What am I missing?

coolgeek wrote at 2021-11-28 04:22:27:

This looks pretty sketchy. The FAQ, blog and DMCA links from the posted page all 404. Seems odd for a site that supposedly has been providing ebooks since 2009

I'm not even going to try clicking the book, article or sign in links

aero-glide2 wrote at 2021-11-28 07:49:40:

Been using it for over 5 years, it's legit.

willmorrison wrote at 2021-11-28 06:21:12:

Site is perfectly fine. It’s nearly the same content as libgen but with a nicer search engine and a recommendation system.

mindcrime wrote at 2021-11-28 06:03:21:

I've been a long-time user of z-lib and never had any issues. YMMV.

hourislate wrote at 2021-11-28 04:59:56:

The site is fine. I've never encountered any problems.

gh0std3v wrote at 2021-11-28 02:25:04:

I’ve used this for a lot of math and CS textbooks. I’m not sure if this has been posted before, so feel free to flag it if it has.

the-dude wrote at 2021-11-28 13:15:23:

You can run it through

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fz-lib.org%2F

( with the search box in HN footer )

sydthrowaway wrote at 2021-11-28 03:54:09:

Reminds me of the Gentoomen library

ofou wrote at 2021-11-28 06:01:30:

Lib. genesis clon-backup, nice to see it up and running.

nlitsme wrote at 2021-11-28 08:38:38:

To be clear, the real zlib lives on

http://zlib.net/

The .org variant is basically typosquatting the name.

eesmith wrote at 2021-11-28 08:47:15:

This is z-lib.org, which is entirely different.

FWIW, zlib.org gives a

  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" content="0; url=http://www.zlib.net">

and its body contains:

  zlib.org is temporarily redirected to <a href="http://www.zlib.net">zlib.net</a>