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by Samin100 1678 days ago
I wanted a dead-simple Library Genesis Mac app so I released one called Alexandria (https://github.com/Samin100/Alexandria) a while ago, and recently just updated it to use IPFS via the Cloudflare gateway. Compared to the previous Libgen servers, book downloads are nearly instant. When IPFS works, it works really well.
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amiantos 1678 days ago
This is cool but "loading sources..." never seems to complete on my machine. Great icon.
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arthurcolle 1678 days ago
It works, sometimes the LibGen servers take a while to respond
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Samin100 1678 days ago
Which book did you search for? Sometimes the Library Genesis servers take a while to respond.
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amiantos 1678 days ago
For my test searches I did "Donnie Darko" and clicked on the first result, and then "Diana Spencer" and tried a few results. Doesn't seem like sources ever load for me. I have a much better experience just going to whatever libgen URL Safari auto-completes for me.
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Samin100 1678 days ago
Ah, I figured out what went wrong. Libgen has two different databases, a fiction and non-fiction one, and right now Alexandria only queries Libgen's non-fiction DB. I'll update it to search both databases later this week. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
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arthurcolle 1678 days ago
It is a really nice app! I have been meaning to get into Mac OS native app development but haven't had the time. Did you implement it in Objective C or Swift?
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