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Has anyone ever stumbled across an executable on LibGen? The article mentioned finding them but I've never seen one.

I agree with the other comments that LibGen shouldn't purge the larger books. But, in terms of mirrors, it would be nice to have a slimmed down archive I could torrent. 19 TB would be manageable. And would be nice to have a local copy of most of the books.

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> Has anyone ever stumbled across an executable on LibGen? The article mentioned finding them but I've never seen one.

Here is a list of .exe files in LibGen: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/1c82739a/

And a breakdown of file extensions: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/579e319c/

> And would be nice to have a local copy of most of the books.

Yes! That was my intention—I wasn't advocating for a purge of content but a leaner and more practical version would be amazing.

> Yes! That was my intention—I wasn't advocating for a purge of content but a leaner and more practical version would be amazing.

Your piece doesn't make that obvious at all, and given how many people here are misunderstanding that point, you might want to update it.

You are right, added a paragraph at the end.

So, 1000 exes and 500 isos (that may be problematic, but most probably aren't). Everything else seems to be what one would expect.

That's way cleaner than I could possibly expect. Do people manually review suspect files?

Thanks for the lists. I was genuinely curious about the exes. Nice to know where they originate. Interesting that over half of them have titles in Cyrillic. I guess not so many English language textbooks (with included CDs) have been uploaded with the data portion intact.

I saw a book on antenna design on libgen that originally included a CD with software, and that disk image had been uploaded to the site.

You can search by extension - there’s a lot of .exe files, mostly Russian AFAIK.

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