Pretty nice. I have used it without issue to download a few public domain books.
Relative to the usual website, it is a bit crude. A lot of metadata is missing, thus it is hard to decide which book to download. Particularly annoying are the lack of ISBNs and such, and the inability to click the author and see other books by them.
The worst point is that files come with no proper filename (just a hash!), thus inviting everyone to rename them in a non-standard manner, rather than offer a filename people won't have to rename.
It was necessary to crop the meta info that much to host for free. It's a feature, not a real limit.
The clickability problem is explained down this thread, it's the same as making an URL addressing a book. Not that nice. It's a technological peculiarity.
The naming may have a solution a bit later. It wasn't clear initially how to approach it.
It was necessary to crop the meta info that much to host for free. It's a feature, not a real limit.
Maybe have a step of indirection (an extra page) showing the metadata, with the ability to download directly still in the index should the metadata "page" not be fetchable.
The clickability problem is explained down this thread, it's the same as making an URL addressing a book. Not that nice. It's a technological peculiarity.
It's good as long as libgen is aware. To be clear, it's good to be up at all, and it doesn't need to be perfect on the first iteration.
The naming may have a solution a bit later. It wasn't clear initially how to approach it.
Showing a filename somewhere to allow downloaders to manually rename the file to a standard form would be a step in the right direction.
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Pretty nice. I have used it without issue to download a few public domain books.
Relative to the usual website, it is a bit crude. A lot of metadata is missing, thus it is hard to decide which book to download. Particularly annoying are the lack of ISBNs and such, and the inability to click the author and see other books by them.
The worst point is that files come with no proper filename (just a hash!), thus inviting everyone to rename them in a non-standard manner, rather than offer a filename people won't have to rename.
It was necessary to crop the meta info that much to host for free. It's a feature, not a real limit.
The clickability problem is explained down this thread, it's the same as making an URL addressing a book. Not that nice. It's a technological peculiarity.
The naming may have a solution a bit later. It wasn't clear initially how to approach it.
Maybe have a step of indirection (an extra page) showing the metadata, with the ability to download directly still in the index should the metadata "page" not be fetchable.
It's good as long as libgen is aware. To be clear, it's good to be up at all, and it doesn't need to be perfect on the first iteration.
Showing a filename somewhere to allow downloaders to manually rename the file to a standard form would be a step in the right direction.
Yes, I think issuing multiple free opportunities might give a more complete solution without compromising the unmanned service.
My browsers actually do offer to rename the files. It might be that yours is set not to prompt.
Typo:
... using multiple free opportunities (accounts)...