#pirating books

[phoenixonwheels]

Years ago back when ebooks were a new thing I collected a bunch of ebooks that were being given away for free and then backed up my Kindle purchases. (Sci Fi fans should check out the Baen free Sci Fi library if you haven’t already.) While cleaning out my hard drive I came across those books so I pulled them all into Calibre to organize them. A neatly organized library of my digital books is a beautiful thing.

Once I finished I decided to download all of the books I’ve purchased from Amazon - something I last did a decade ago. And I was shocked to realize they’ve fucked with the DRM so badly that I can no longer get into my books in any way but through the Kindle app. As a person who’s been using computers for decades that sets off alllllll my red flags. File formats change, businesses come and go, and converting files from format to format is not a foolproof process. Sometimes they get corrupted. Sometimes they get deleted.

So now I’m left with about a hundred books that I paid good hard cash for and the only way I’m going to be able to meaningfully own them is to… pirate digital copies of the books I already paid for? So anyway if anyone knows good places to pirate books from HMU because I have a pile of books I need to find in a more accessible format.

#pirating books #ebooks #shits wild

[violet-primroses]

Since z-library was taken down, here are screenshots from author SK Ali’s past Instagram stories

Pirating books leads to ends of authors.

#social justice #books #authors #sk ali #zlibrary #piracy #pirating #pirating books #pdfs #pdf #reading

[mrlancer]

You know, I never realised how extremely naive I was as a human until people talked about pirating books. I didn't even know people did that or that it was a thing until I was like in my late teens early 20s...

#books #books and libraries #pirating books #naive

[kuzuyamii]

happy anniversary to whatever is going on in this show

#black sails #bs #mine #edit #comp #scene #compilation #tv show #show #book #character #treasure island #pirate #james flint #charles vane #john silver #hale gates #eleanor guthrie #max bs #anne bonny #jack rackham #idelle

[ghost-in-a-cup]

hey guys, maybe before you pirate LEARN SOME ETIQUETTE

why are these important? well, if you openly share the sites, they wil get shut down. corporations are willing to copyright strike anything. you are only going to make accessing these resources harder.

remember: LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS

if you want to share resources, don't post them on public forums like tumblr, twitter,instagram or any popular site. remember how zlibrary shut down? yall want that to happen to more sites? do you?

also like if they get shut down, people who can't access these otherwise because they don't have the means for it or its banned in their country are losing access.

Don't post links online. Only share in private conversations.

try and avoid linking the sites directly. a workaround is sharing the downloaded files via other file hosting sites similar to google drive and drop box

DON'T SHARE ON PUBLIC FORUMS. EVER. PLEASE

Use a VPN. i personally like proton vpn, it is a freemium model but the free version works fine.

These are just the basics, there are others but please keep these in mind.

#books #video games #movies #tv shows #download #book #literature #eat the rich #anti capitalism #piracy #pirating #media preservation #internet #yo ho ho

[happyheidi]

#little my reading about pirates #I love it #my gifs #moomin #little my #reading #books #moominvalley #cottagecore #nostalgia #nostalgiacore #tanoshii moomin ikka #anime aesthetic #animation #90s #cartoon #cozycore #cosycore #gif

[ellery-six]

His special seat 🏴‍☠️

#one piece #one piece fanart #op #op fanart #monkey d luffy #luffy #going merry #straw hat pirates #children's book illustration #zoro #sanji #luffy fanart #one piece live action #one piece netflix

[elliottkay]

Every show and film and book I grew up with presented the military as a place where you’d find yourself. The military could be good, could be bad, and all that “glory” stuff was clearly nonsense… but shared trials made you stronger and forged ride-or-die buddies for life. And hey, it’d pay for college.

Then I joined. It didn’t work out. Every day ranged from tedious to toxic, even when we did genuine good. I made one short-term friend in four years.

I still loved those stories, but none of them were ever about the guy who joins up and doesn’t find himself and never belongs—so I wrote it.

Poor Man’s Fight is a rockin’ space opera built on shattered dreams, student debt, and space pirates. Lots of space pirates. It’s funny, it’s sober, and you’ll want to hug Tanner Malone even when he’s covered in blood. The real enemies are always capitalism and toxic masculinity.

And then comes the war with the corporations that built this whole dystopia, because the enemy is still capitalism, even for the aliens.

On a brighter note, Tanner does make it out of the military and into college, becoming the Deadliest Unpaid Intern in the Galaxy… and the Resident Advisor for a freshman dorm full of chaos goblins.

(Cover art by Lee Moyer, Julie Dillon, Dan Watson, and Brittany Torres, for which I’m forever grateful.)

If you’ve made it this far, hopefully you’re looking for where to pick this up. They’re all available on ebook and Kindle Unlimited, and everything from Poor Man’s Fight to Last Man Out is also in paperback and audio.

And bonus: they’re cheap!

#books #space opera #military sci-fi #space pirates #poor man's fight #angry liberals like space laser nonsense too #blasphemy on every planet #pewpewpew

[powpowchaos]

Whoa. Pirate kisses

#powpowchoas #shadow the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog #sonadow #pows sketch book #Mythos of Shadow #pirate sonic #captain shadow

[aevyk-ing]

Yep.

#character tropes #pirates of the caribbean #jack sparrow #will turner #star wars #luke skywalker #han solo #the witcher #geralt of rivia #jaskier #lord of the rings #legolas #aragorn #nimona #ballister boldheart #ballister blackheart #i liked so much this trope in nimona it inspired me for one of my next books

[backgroundagent3]

Z-library alternatives

So z-library is down, which is an absolute tragedy, but for those looking here's a list of alternatives under the cut.

Books

Open Library: this works like an actual library, where there's a waiting list and you can borrow books for x time.

Library Genesis: my personal favourite of the ones in this list, both for entertainment or academic books. Here you can download epubs or other formats, and there's a great ISBN search function.

Sci-Hub: this is for research papers, but you have to type the exact title of what you're looking for.

IT eBooks: books on IT and programming.

Ubooquity: has to be installed to use.

Simon & Schuster: I haven't actually tried this one, but it has a mailing list which you have to sign up to in order to get the books.

eBooks 3000: this doesn't have that many options and there are some pop up ads.

PDF Drive: there's no limits or ads, but it only has PDF formats.

Read Any Book: here you can read books online or download them.

The Eye: sort of an archive with pretty much everything, but you can't search things here, and it's tough to navigate. I think they have audiobooks too.

Audiobooks

Audiobook Bay: here you can download audiobooks.

Booksonic: this is for audiobook streaming, and you have to download the app or install the software on your computer.

Tokybook: this one has many options, and it's easy to navigate.

I know none of these are as good as z-library was, but hopefully they'll do the trick. This could really help people, so pass it on and add if you have more!

#z library #zlibrary #zlib #z lib #pirating #books #ebooks #audiobooks #z library alternatives #background agent 3

[violet-primroses]

There’s a very big difference between pirating a book by SJM and pirating something by an author who hasn’t even had their first royalty check

#pirating books from small authors is like stealing from small businesses #while pirating books from authors who make a ton of money is like stealing from the rich #books aren’t so necessary that it should come at the cost of those who write them #pirating books #pirating #piracy #books #booklr

[spacepunksupreme]

this is what this movie was about to me

#renfield (2023) #renfield #dracula #hannah is talking #I made myself bust up laughing at the thought of this on like friday night and have just been waiting for this movie to get uploaded to my #fav pirating site so I could take these screenshots lmao #also rewatching this little confrontation scene. nicholas hoult and nic cage are both so good. renfield being completely pathetic and the #face journey dracula goes through when renfield pulls out his stupid little self help book. he goes from like confusion to disgust to #amusement to anger. it's so good

[yunirart]

Finally can show here this project of mine! Nami's story as a children's book. :D I hope you guys like it, I was really excited to post it

#one piece #digital illustration #one piece drawing #anime fanart #artwork #artists on tumblr #digital 2d #digital arwork #one piece fanart #nami #one piece nami #straw hat pirates #straw hat crew #arlong #opfanart #children books #illustration #nami one piece #nami fanart #nami op

[stanelma]

Okay, this one is not good enough. But I spent so much time with this one, that I just show it to you. There is nice mechanisms and nice pages, but it not work as smoothly as I want. There is a reason for that, I do more and more pop up -book elements and lesser basic paper mechanisms. Because of that the binding of this book is not good. I know how to do it on future, but it was too late with this one - I need to build the pages in another way.

So, next one will be better. Maybe someone like to see this one too - so here we go.

And happy season two for everyone!

#OFMD #our flag means death #crafts #fanart #fandom #gentleman pirate #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #ed blackbeard #edward teach #stede bonnet #ed x stede #papercraft #scrapbooking #pop up book #crew of the revenge #diy #ofmd season 1 #ready for season 2

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

Love when male characters dress like sluts and whores. Like yes unbutton that shirt down to your navel, wear those tight pants and knee high boots, wear a cape with no shirt underneath

#the last one is #alucard #but also a fanart i love of #rhysand #lucien vanserra #castlevania #book boyfriend #and fan artists that draw them like this are doing the lords work #i really just described the duke from the moulin rouge musical lol #and maybe pirates?? #books #reading #tv #movies #vampires