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by SpelingBeeChamp 2383 days ago
Mind explaining the origin of your 32 TB figure? I must be missing something enormous, but as far as I can tell the SciMag database dump is 9.3 GB, the LibGen non-fiction dump is 3.2 GB, and the LibGen fiction dump is 757 MB. That's a pretty huge divergence.

Source: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/dbdumps/
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SpelingBeeChamp 2383 days ago
Oh, wait. I'm dumb. I see that your first link is a citation.

Continuing to be dense, why is there a difference between their "database dump" and the total of all the files they have?

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nub 2383 days ago
The databases contain the metadata (authors, edition, ISBN, etc.) for the books.

Thus, 32 TB of books (over 2 million titles), 3.2 GB database.

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trogdor 2383 days ago
Ah, that makes sense.

To make sure I'm understanding this correctly:

The Libgen Desktop application (which requires only a copy of the database) would then use the DB metadata to make LibGen locally searchable, and would only retrieve the individual books/papers on request?

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