Z-Library: New Problems

My private URL for Z-Library no longer works. These were an innovation Z-Library started a year or two ago. You sent an email message to them, and they sent you back custom URLs just for you.

However, I found http://zlib24th6ptyb4ibzn3tj2cndqafs6rhm4ed4gruxztaaco35lka.b32.i2p/ This works just fine, and will be harder to block, but I2P doesn't make connections as easily as the Clearnet, and not even as easily as Onionland. Also, a lot of you don't run I2P.

For now, https://singlelogin.re/ is also working.

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#ShanaProject

Shana Project can #automate your #anime #downloads ? Set and forget the shows and subbers you like, and let your computer #download each new #release without you having to do a thing!

https://www.shanaproject.com/

Green Comet Reading Remastered

#audiobook #downloads #green-comet #novel

Originally posted at: https://greencomet.org/2021/06/13/green-comet-reading-remastered/

Open Libraries: How Long Will They Last

I noticed this article at Torrent Freak. https://torrentfreak.com/brein-cracks-down-on-open-directory-piracy-but-what-is-it-201115/

Seems there's a coming crackdown on Open Libraries. These are libraries you discover by searching for "index of" epub. For example

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%22index%20of%22%20epub

It works with other types of files as well: e.g., "index of" mp4.

If these are going to start disappearing, we might want to save what we can first. Here's a library with a fair amount of SF and crime fiction.

http://www.lesatkins.com/books/epubfiles/

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Libraries on the Internet overlay networks are less easy to censor, as are torrents.
- http://xfmro77i3lixucja.onion/search/?q= The Imperial Library of Trantor
- http://127.0.0.1:43110/zeropub.bit/?page=1&sort=updated&lang=en zeropub
- http://ebooks.i2p/

#library #ebook #ebooks #books #sf #crime-fiction #downloads #file-sharing

youtube-dl Is Not Gone

This headline had me really worried.

https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-takes-down-popular-open-source-youtube-dl-software-201024/

However, youtube-dl is not gone. It's only gone from GitHub, which all right-thinking projects have already left, anyway. (Check out https://codeberg.org/).

We can install youtube-dl now the way we always have.

sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

As someone pointed out to me a while back, you can also install it in distros where ~/bin is in PATH like this.

curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o ~/bin/youtube-dl
chmod 755 ~/bin/youtube-dl

This allows you to update youtube-dl without using sudo. We update youtube-dl with youtube-dl -U. It's necessary to update youtube-dl often.

See https://yt-dl.org/ for more info about youtube-dl.

#privacy #surveillance #freedom #youtube #youtube-dl #download #downloads #video #videos #invidious