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artninja1988 on June 21, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after...

I would bet that most of the archive books are already on Libgen, yes

crazygringo on June 22, 2024 [–]

They're not.

IA is mostly full-color scans of old library books.

I've never come across an IA scan on Libgen. Libgen is mostly EPUB's, native PDF's, and the occasional black-and-white high-contrast PDF scan.

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