Bibliotik's been down for some time, what's up with that?
>>7457965
It is run by incompetent nitwits with egos the size of Texas, and I suspect that their technical support does this as a part time thing, or else has more interest in books than servers and tries to address issues using google.
bookzz
btdigg
mobilism
tuebl
aaaaarg.fail
and if that fails sign up for overdrive with your local library or university.
>>7458193
Thanks for confirming their ineptitude.
what's the point of bibliotik when there is genesis?
why
>>7459079
You can't directly request people to put books up on genesis, as far as I know.
Please let me know if you actually can, or if you can do it elsewhere.
>>7459091
well, they have their forums in ruskie moonspeak but i never felt compelled to visit them
jesus christ you people sure love your fancy pants 1694 lower silesian monastic epigrams
I can't recall the last time genesis/mobilism didn't have what I was looking for.
>>7457965
borders, what's up with that?
>>7459109
Okay, anon. I mostly use it for monographs that I'm using for research, since a lot of the folks on Bib have Overdrive and can get recent university press things. That I don't want to pay $40+ for.
I still find plenty that I've bought and stripped to share on it and on /lit/, that wasn't available otherwise. There's a very large lot of books out there.
>> 7458193
soulseek, libgen
>>7459171
yeah, I get it
though it just boggles my mind how bibliotik managed to survive when its only distinct quality was rare specialist scans. How can there be a large enough number of specialists out there who both managed to get an invite and to contribute enough to warrant membership. How does it even work? Was that really just a bunch of OCD autists at the top who propped up that ludicrous economy for that long?
Am I missing something, was there some clever way to monetize people scanning all those rare pepe monographs?
>>7459249
You don't have to scan to get stuff up; there's even an easy trick of using a gift card on a separate Amazon account, buying books and downloading them through the PC app immediately, then saying "I bought this by accident." Refunds immediately and you still have the book. It was one of the top tutorials in the forums. Put $15 on a gift card and you're good for at least 20 books before they catch on.
It doesn't have to be that large. There were never all that many uploads per day, aside from people spamming bullshit magazines to up their numbers. Books take a long time to read, so someone who scans 100 books over five years has still given a significant amount to the community. I got my invite from another scanner/OCR person who I collaborated with on some. I imagine that's how it gets around.
It's not the scanners who are "librarians" and "top posters" and whatever titles they got though. Those were just people with Overdrive.
The three people who downloaded the monograph I scanned on Japanese humor might have appreciated it, but it wasn't propping up anything.
>>7459269
I always thought the appeal of bibliotik were scans of pre-google era titles that had never been digitized.
>>7459336
Possibly. I only found two guys on there who scanned stuff I liked though.
I don't know where else one would be able to share any of that other than Bib now though, if it doesn't come back. /lit/ doesn't care for it.
>>7459249
Ive mentioned this before, but I was banned as being part of an invite tree despite receiving the invite from a coworker.
I was banned in spite of the fact that I had 70 uploads, 15 gigs seeded, and did odd jobs for members like converting pdf to epub via ocr.
Bibliotik is garbage, barely works, has a terrible community and worse moderation. True it does have some incredible members who seem to spend their whole day transfering content from overdrive, but if you use the resources >>7458193 and >>7459185
you will almost always find the book you are looking for, unless you just NEED that first edition scan of a later Junger novel.
>>7458193
>aaaaarg.fail
It says the search is down.
Hint:
Google:
intitle:"calibre library" inurl:browse
Voila, all open calibre libraries on servers. Throw in an authors name or title for more specific searches
>>7459374
Why is everyone always so testy about other people reading books that aren't available online? It doesn't have to be something stupidly obscure to not be available.
>>7459397
I cannot say that I was feeling testy. I just hate bibliotik because sour grapes, but also because it is not the end all be all alpha and omega of book pirating.
>>7459403
Libraries with free inter-library loaning are the end all and be all. If there were some way to steal off Google Books, that'd come close.
Is LibGen downloading down for anyone else? I can't actually get anything except from the bookzz mirror, and the books I want have been removed from there.
>>7459422
What are you looking for? I might be of some help.
>>7459422
A few of the libgen mirrors are down, just google libgen mirrors and grab the reddit link returned for up to date mirrors.
bookfi is also up too.
>>7459433
If you're offering, I was looking at
>Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia: A Feminist Poet From Japan Encounters Prewar China
>Lao She in London
Admittedly just saw them when I was double-checking at how little of their work is on there (nothing for Yosano even). But libgen's always been pretty cool for browsing university press offerings.
>>7459374
never engage with a tracker community
>>7459397
>It doesn't have to be something stupidly obscure to not be available.
yes it does
there's literally zero reason for a work to not be digitized and e-published nowadays unless its a kgb file on random commie block janitor masturbation habits
Speaking of scans, has anyone got the Charles Feidelson edition of Moby-Dick on hand?
>>7459422
>Libraries with free inter-library loaning are the end all and be all.
that's what a. swartz concluded and exploited, innit?
>>7459453
>>Lao She in London
I knew I recognized this. It's on Project MUSE. I don't have university credentials high enough to gain access to it so I'm gonna have to resolve to brute force. I'll look for your second title as well.
Now I understand the sour grapes guy but don't just settle on this idea that the only additional content on bib is rare scans nobody's interested in. I've often found recent (published within 1-4 years) retail books on it that hadn't been disseminated elsewhere yet, for months. No, not genre crap or pop crap and not only specialized academic resources, though they do seem to have a lot of all that too.
>>7459486
You're being silly. I just double-checked that Midaregami wasn't online. Tanizaki's lesser-known stuff isn't there on LG. Marry Butts' stories aren't, anything from Wakefield Press isn't, One Hundred Mountains of Japan isn't. I'm not going to keep looking; there's plenty I can't get to right now.
>>7459506
They're both on LibGen, if you're able to get from there. No mirror but bookzz has worked for me so far.
>>7459531
Yeah, they always put out NYRB releases pretty much day-of. Glad I got caught up before they went down.
>>7459533
Hmm, all mirrors for both books are down, magnets aren't working either.
You know what we should have? Throwaway Shibboleth user accounts from distinct universities. I'm surprised this isn't a thing, but, then again, I don't realize the magnitude of effort that should be put into creating an environment where exchanges as these can occur.
not a member/user at any site but have never located leo herlihy short story collections, are those around anywhere
>>7459383
>aaaaarg.fail
What I did was cntl f in library and search author name.
Can I request some books that I highly doubt anyone will find? Thank you if you do though.
Joris Karl Huysman - Becalmed, Parisian Sketches, Marthe: The Story of a Whore
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam - Cruel Tales
Géza Csáth - Opium and Other Stories
>>7460691
Sorry to add to this, but might as well.
Marcel Schwob - Imaginary Lives
Ladislav Klíma - The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch
Can we make a specific, regular thread for people requesting books they can't find? I think it would be really nice if someone with access to private trackers offers to help them.
>>7460973
we used to do that all the time, look in the archive, sharethreads were really popular. Now the enthusiasm seems to have dwindled a bit.
pedantic nerds at aaarg deleted my account probably due to inactivity. shit like this makes me pissed. how do i make them pay?
>>7461079
Must be because it was getting to the point where most requests were for the sorts of books people should be able to find themselves, and otherwise for stuff that just doesn't exist
>>7457965
If you google it, you'll see that the same thing happened in 2012 or 2013. They were down (I think without warning) for an indefinite ammount of time, and then they came back. Hope the same thing happens this time as well.
>>7458193
hadnt heard of tuebl, thank u
if you can read spanish epublibre is good
>>7460702
Hey, I stripped the first years ago. I'd always been meaning to scan The Book of Monelle, but I don't want the publisher to come to any harm.
>Imaginary Lives - Marcel Schwob.zip
u.pomf.io/ajopoz.zip
