ok maybe i’m just being a dumbass. I’m getting textbooks off of z-library per the megathread, as they are the only site that lists the specific books I need currently. I am browsing via TOR.
I can’t seem to see a download button or link for the books I am looking for, nor for any other book I open. Maybe this is because I don’t have an account. But let’s say I don’t feel like making one, because that means spinning up another burner email, and and and… idk. I’m lazy.
I thought I’d be nice and access the content via the IPFS CID using the IPFS desktop node/app thing from here. Zlibrary lists IPFS CID’s for all books they host. That will save server load on them and likely be faster for a couple of the 200+MB PDF’s.
But it absolutely can NOT find any of the CID’s that z-library gives for any of it’s content, whether I click browse or inspect in the search box or use the import function, even after I let it sit and run on my extra seed PC for two days to populate the peer list.
I know IPFS must be working as some of the test CID’s I used from the tutorial imported ok.
am i being dumb? am I missing the fundamental purpose of the IPFS CID’s here or something?
… and likely be faster for a couple of the 200+MB PDF’s.
Natrator: “It wasn’t!”
Jokes aside, where do you live where 200MB x some would be considered some heavy storage? I mean me uploading that file to someone would take 2 seconds on my cheap home 1024Mb/s connection. A pro one would probably be way better…
I love the name of IPFS (Inter Planetary File System!), it’s cool and all but IMO the technology behind it is not at all living up to it, it’s basically just a benevolent storage with static links.
I’m not talking about the storage requirements. I have terabytes of unused SSD; that is irrelevant. The direct links for most zlib or libgen books download at 10-30kb/s for me and can take a few hours for one book, often failing multiple times in between. I was trying to find an alternative, something distributed was likely to be faster.
Very helpful comment.
I didn’t want to be cheeky or something, sorry for that.
The problem might be that the “Inter Planetary File System” is cool just by name.
That’s the problem. If I understands correctly anyways what you are doing.