I recently visited library.nu and found a totally different site. No log-ins, and new positioning as "the book review encyclopaedia". The old ability to post links to books is gone-- and so if you've been using it as a virtual library, you'll need a new source of books. There are still other websites for books-- the Russians and the Chinese will have something to replace library.nu (and its predecessor, gigapedia).
Of course, there's still ebookee.org, but the searching for books there is a lot messier than it was in library.nu. Also, many of the links in ebookee don't work; old websites that allowed file-sharing, such as filesonic, have lost their old functionality. I suspect that it's one of the aftershocks of the Megaupload takedown. I thought that the resurrection of library.nu was gonna last. Ah well: Sic transit gloria mundi.
postrcript: (February 15, 2012) I can't log in anymore even when I go to gigapedia.info, and based on the comments to this blog entry, nobody seems to be able to get in. For now, I'll use an alternative ebook search tool: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ . It seems to be a decent alternative to ebookee. I will, however, miss library.nu's user-friendly interface.
(As of February 17, 2012) Short answer to "What happened to library.nu?" : Legal problems. I found a link from slashdot telling the story of library.nu. After some more searching, I found additional links from the huffington post . I doubt the claims of the plaintiffs here--- that the admins made a profit here. Many of the users are from developing countries and are likely to be students. Also, I think that claims that the admins were selling premium level accounts is doubtful. Many of the people who actually registered on the site would probably have a different story to tell.
(As of March 17, 2012) Even http://gen.lib.rus.ec doesn't seem to work anymore; I keep getting a 404 error message. Still have no news why it's down.
(As of July 8, 2012) There's a article in aljazeera about library.nu, (I got it from library.nu, by the way) and it expresses some of the unhappiness that book-lovers and scholars -- especially in the third world-- feel about the shutdown of library.nu. The library.nu website is still there-- it's morphed into a search site with reviews but no links. If you buy a book from amazon using library.nu, it should help the administrators with their legal troubles. See this link.
(As of March 1, 2013) I url library.nu now redirects to http://www.internationalpublishers.org/, which looks like an organization whose philosophy seems to be diametrically opposite that of gigapedia's and the old library.nu Donors who wish to assist the original owners of the library.nu domain name have no more means to do so; the link I mentioned above is dead.
110 comments:
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Hmm, it don't seem to work anymore. I only get this:
resource not found
continue to main page
Hi, I suggest Tatum's last comment be removed. This blog currently appears on the top 10 list of Google results for "what happened to library.nu", providing sensitive information that no other site on that list provides. Quite possibly, when people from library.nu realize this they may change their current URL once more.
It is better if this kind of information is transmitted personally to trusted acquaintances.
I think you are right, I went ahead and deleted my comment.
william tatum - can you help a sister out? can you email it to me pretty please?
Hi, I'm a registered user of library.nu, and now I can't reach the page. I would appreciate it so much, if somebody could guide back to this page.
Thanks beforehand, I am pursuing a career in Finance and Economics, and I really need the support from this site.
hi Will!
Can you help a desperate social sciences student. im working on my bachelor degree paper, and it is impossible to find out some materials in my country.
Im working on public administration information systems.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards from Mexico
by the way, i'm a registered user
Hey!
I have been been desperately looking for other websites that distribute free textbooks after library.nu closed down (?!). However, no website is as good as that. :-\
Will you please send me an email about the change of url if at all such change happens?
It will be much appreciated.
D.
rebel.deya@gmail.com
http://gigapedia.info/ ...... try it
I'm desperate here. I have my undergrad finals in two months, and the books I need are impossible to find in India. The few copies in libraries are never available, and I can't order them from abroad on account of the expense. Please, please, could some help me. Please tell me how to be able to access library.nu and download ebooks( email me at deadenedthrone@gmail.com). I'm a registered user, by the way. Please, please please help me. I would be ever so much grateful.
I absolutely love library.nu and thank you, thank you for the tip.
Just saved a med student's life!
The problem seems to be bigger than the usual "can't log in" complaint you see everywhere. It looks like they're trying to go legit to avoid getting the megaupload treatment (or, as they've stated elsewhere, perhaps to temper the legal troubles they're in). At any rate, it *seems* like you simply cannot use it as you/we used to be able to. The "workaround" doesn't work anymore, so obviously they've caught on.
So is library.nu no longer a downloadable site? The only thing it seems to do is give reviews and send you somewhere else for the book.
Thanks a bunch, Andy! You're a saint!
thanks Andy :)
hey - like many other social scientists, I am in need of the uses of library.nu as well. Especially since I live in Turkey we lack the library resources to obtain most of the books via library loans as well. I would really appreciate tips to figure all this out!!
THANKS! begumb@msn.com
hi, I am a PhD student in tears over the lost of library.nu. can you email me as well? meba@walla.co.il
Thanks!
I am another PhD student and since I don't have a good research funding my work depends on library.nu. I would highly appreciate if you could let me know what to do as well.
arbhm@yahoo.com
try this link
http://gigapedia.info/lnu.html
and then click library login
Andy2701 you are a true champion! Thanks a million buddy! :)
Now it seems that uploading books to library.nu is disabled
Thank you Andy, my life was terrible during these blackout days!
Hey guys, I'm in desperate need for your help to get back to library.nu,would appreciate any help
my email: nisreen7n@gmail.com
many thanks in advance
could somebody please email me the new link... I was registered user... but can't find them :o( PLEASE!!! monika_good@hotmail.com
Andy, Thanx!
U're a real hero!!
For those who are asking the link, here it goes again:
http://gigapedia.info/
Best Regards from Mexico!
Thanks Elneri
But that link doesnt seem to work either
is there any other link , we can use
desperately need some books!
HELP!
my email- parfait456 at yahoo dot com
Thanks in advance!!!!!!!!!!
You have just provided a great service to human kind. Thank you sir!
It's BAAAACK!!!!
its not back, now you get redirected to some weird open library, which is crap! I am/was also a registred user, PhD Student and pretty desperated. If someone has a viable solution, please...
perezxolote at googlemail dot com
Hey, the library doesn't work. But I need books - and desparately so. Help pleaseeee.
Help please.
Today, Feb 14th, library.nu redirects to google books
And gigapedia login doesn't recognize existing account, isn't it?
Any confirmation? Workaround?
I was registered in the "old" library, but now I no longer can login. When I give the "forgot my password" process a try I am informed that my e-mail is no longer registered...
Anyone with luck using the library? If possible, please contact me at htaunay at googlemail dot com with instructions or any other kind of help. I was a big fan of the community and I'm curious/worried about what may have happened.
Thanks in advance, and good luck to solve whatever problems the library may be facing!
I rechecked the gigapedia.info link and found that I could not log into library.nu anymore. I suppose it means that (a) either the library.nu that we all knew is dead, (b) or the admin is planning something else. I'll wait and see what happens in the next few days. I would be really sad if library.nu as we know it disappears.
No workarounds as far as I know. I've tried using the recover account facility but it doesn't recognize my email address. I'll be visiting the site (from time to time) this week and see what happens.
People, it is official. Library.nu is shutting down. That is the reason why registered users can no longer log in (their accounts are no longer recognized). A sad day for public information and knowledge. All this thanks to the publishing industry.
I'm mourning :(
Does anyone know of any viable alternatives out there?
Also, since all of those files are still in the cloud somewhere, aren't they bound to show up somewhere? If so, is there anyway to monitor that possibility?
Thanks, Zeb
Devastated, how am I going to finish my PhD? Any suggestions for similar sites?
I am a graduate student and have been a subscriber and contributor for library.nu for a long time, and I will really, really appreciate if any of you saintly people can email me the link. Thanks a bunch in advance. d.samik@gmail.com
I need the link too, please. I'm a Ph.D student and English professor in Costa Rica, and Library.nu really helped me get stuff I can't get here or that is way too expensive.
tonyget@gmail.com
This sucks! Where am I to go now? i need help. jasonemailname@yahoo.com
please
What the hell !!! All those precious books are gone now !!!!!!
Please, help! Have the same problem as people above. my e-mail: lilia.pank@gmail.com
Same for me, this is a tragedy!!
Any alternatives?
If anyone knows anything, please email me at anita.van.horn()gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gigapedia/289795884228?sk=wall
I found this...
Hi I am a research student and I desperately need to access library.nu
Could anyone pls mail me the new url?
gaea.haides@gmail.com
They are online now and need donations for supporting their legal fees
fonty, how can we donate?
and i still can't log in.
Online where? I keep getting the Google Books site instead!
Login Via the gigapedia.info site. That is working. You can donate using the donate button on the left hand corner
Still can't find the donate button here, and still can't login. =/
Me too, I can´t log in...
"unable to login, check username and/or password are entered correctly".
:__(
People re-read the comments!!!!!!
"The website is shutting down due to legal shit from the publishing industry :(, no futher comment" - email response from library.nu admin
Hard to replace Library.nu. But a decent alternative:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
People re-read the comments!!!!!!
"The website is shutting down due to legal sh*t from the publishing industry :(, no futher comment" - email response from library.nu admin
Hard to replace Library.nu. But a decent alternative:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
I am really very sorry for library.nu.
I happen to live in a country where professional literature is difficult to get and extremely expensive, the newest books in the field I am interested in are not translated or imported. Bureaucracy is huge and if you order something (at Amazon for example) you can spend a day releasing it at the customs office.
Library.nu was a good way to bypass all difficulties. I hope the other site you have mentioned here is as good as it.
If anyone knows other decent places, please write at my personal e-mail address.
I am interested mainly in psychoanalysis, mental health, social work, philosophy.
Also, I have downloaded quite a number of books mainly psychoanalysis and psychotherapy from library.nu, if anyone needs them perhaps I could be of help.
Two articles which may be of use about the shut down of library.nu:
http://www.domainsentral.com/2012/02/16/global-publisher-alliance-forces-pirate-ebook-sites-offline/
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/international-publisher-alliance-shuts-down-piracy-site.html
I am really sad too...whats been happened to library.nu..........please give the link if one have it on my email id.... udayan.karnatak@gmail.com
rip lnu....
Can you believe it? The single best thing ever made available in the web. True democratization of knowledge... But the wolves were closing in. Let alone their huge profits of the last quarter. All I can say is: thank you library.nu. For a brief, but wholesome moment, I was free. I have faith there is a new breed of warriors that will will carry the flame on.
Libry.nu is gone. I am very grateful for the mention of the Russian site, which is a truly good alternative.
But what about the Chinese site? I cannot figure out the URL. Can you help,please
pucci@unisi.itr
Hey, Pino What is the russian site? Thanks in advance. Does anybody knows here good sites as it was Gigapedia/Library.nu, please emal; oralea1@gmail.com
Can anyone help me. I was using library.nu for my work and now I am at sea. I cannot afford to buy all the books I want. Is there another site like that. Any help would be most useful. luta2012@yahoo.com
Help please! email juzasu@gmail.com
Hi, could someone please tell me where to find the textbooks I need? (desaxce@math.u-psud.fr)
Hi, I'm from Manila and without resources like those provided by library.nu. Could you please tell me about other alternative sites?
tsela_marco@yahoo.com
The website that I currently use for book hunting is ebookee.org The main difficulties I have with the site are: (1)it's hard to do a search by author, and (2) only some download links work. You you need to spend more time looking and testing download links.
try http://bookfi.org
Could believe it when I saw "rip lnu"! It was a life saver for my assignments! But I'm grateful I found some answers here...thanks peeps!
Dear Friends, I will be so grateful if anyone can send me an alternative URL for library.nu, Best regards. My email is meroone2000@gmail.com
Folks,
Would you please provide the current web address of Library.nu
I urgently need some engineering books on nuclear plant.
jafaf2@gmail.com
Thank you in advance
Hello Everyone,
I have a blog that will solve almost all your problems with studies, all I need is that you will share it.
Here is the address: shareinfoblog.blogspot.com
You will find there a lot of useful stuff, links, tools and more.
Just use the search and the categories.
Would you please send me the new address of Libary.nu?
Now when the gen.lib.rus.ec is down, I don't know where to go to find good ebooks. Thanks.
Here is my email: kelurahan.gembirakata@gmail.com
library genesis is down . I don't know why. Please help me as i want some books for my phd....please....
my email id is udayan.karnatak@gmail.com
please help me too
ergun.akgun@usak.edu.tr
library genesis down as well.please help and let me know about alternative sites.thanks a million!
abin_chakraborty@yahoo.co.in
Could you please send the same information to me as well? We need free knowledge (or, at least, free research for knowledge).
Thank you
Hi Everyone!
could someone help me to get the new lnu url?
please email themarquis1944@gmail.com.
thanks a lot-I'm in desperate need of some titles!
i need the new url as well,
please mail the link to the following email:
eduedix AT gmail DOT com
please i need your help, thanks in advance , i am working on my MBA and i canmt find sources
dr_maem@yahoo.com
If you still send the new url to desperate students, i'd be glad to obtain it. Thanks in advance :
amongwareth@hotmail.com
Dear fellows
please help me to findd the books
my email id is masimrai@gmail.com
Asim
So what has happened to the OLD library.nu?
http://library.nu/lnu.html
Kindly send me the alternate link for library.nu. I am a phd student and need help desperately my email is svyogi@gmail.com thanks very much for your help
hi there, not sure if this is still working, but please help me out with the link as well! jechng@gmail.com
thanks in advance!
Please I need the new URL too. My email is ursultan1@gmail.com
Same as above: donator, long time user, phd student, ready to contribute : bdubsair@gmail.com.
The same. Please mail me: gavronskiguimaraes@gmail.com . Thank you very much!
Could you send me? vitor.grnd@gmail.com
Can I get the new url as well? zaphod234@yahoo.com
May I have the url as well; I am in need for research. Thank you.
Could I also have url. I would greatly appreciate it xirex7@gmail.com
Is there a working alternative to library nu ? I have been a registered user and donator and have lost all hope since, I would very much appreciate, if anybody can sugggest a link to a new place that works for books.. thanks a lot. my email is javit@email.cz
I was a donator and registered user to Library nu and found great information, can you perhaps send me also the link to a new place where to find all that wonderful books again? thank you, my email is najv@email.cz
Hi,
i also need another source of books for my PhD!
Please send me an email to:
wallacechemical@gmail.com
Thanx!
need it as well
mbejai@gmail.com
I really need your help. I live in Argentina and the books I need are impossible to find here. The few copies in libraries are never available if they have them, they don't import them in the bookshops and I can't order them from abroad on account of the expense that means bring books into my country. Please, please help me!! I really need to get my master degree to be able to access library.nu and download ebooks( email me at lubrignolo@gmail.com). Please, please please help me. I would be ever so much grateful.
I'm a PhD student and desperately need references. Would you kindly send me any alternative source for academic books.
my email is: nisreen7n@gmail.com.
Thank you
The same, please! osiol1972@o2.pl
THX!
I contributed to library.nu and was saddened to see it go. Can you e-mail me the new link at donnygoodman@yahoo.com? I research abstract algebra. Thank you very much.
there are new alternative to library.nu, checkout legalreads.com with one million ebooks and nice search
bookfi.org is working to get some books. But it's incomparable with library.nu
Can someone send me the new link to acces library.nu? apemartin@chek.com Thanks
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