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by 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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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?