• BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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    Definitely don’t use mobilism for a solid archive of epubs and audiobooks. It’d be awful if people had access to free and enriching entertainment

    • em2@lemmy.ml
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      That and z-library. I hope people are careful to steer free from these sites/apps that work amazingly well.

  • nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev
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    Fun fact: you can email authors of papers and ask for a PDF. Authors don’t get paid when you buy a paper (in fact it usually costs money to publish) and they’ll generally be happy to send out their work to anyone interested.

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      I know someone who did that, got the paper and a whole load of infodump on the topic

      Some people are extremely happy to share their obscure knowledge

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    This is what professors in school and universities say when you need to use specific book but even they know it’s so damn expensive.

  • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net
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    If you haven’t bailed from the platform completely you certainly shouldn’t join the facebook group “ask for pds from people with institutional access” either

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    Is sci-hub updated again? I mean its good it still works for papers older than a few years, but does it for papers from the last few years?

    • fossilesque@mander.xyzOPM
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      It has sort of merged with Anna’s Archives which is hit and miss for recent stuff, but still the best out there. Their Sci-Hub proxy always works.