Hi, yes. I use Library Genesis to ensure my citations are correct because it's the most efficient way of doing so. That's absurd.
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Replying to @kareem_carr
For books, it lets me manually verify from the copyright pages. Sometimes Amazon helps, too.
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Replying to @generativist
There is a book on marketplaces that says they provide: 1. trust between parties, 2. triangulation so people can find each other and 3. the smooth transfer of value. I would say that's the issue here. No real marketplace.
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Replying to @kareem_carr
What do you mean?
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Replying to @generativist
I mean that assess to books would be easier if there was some way to efficiently manage the various kinds of value transfers between readers and writers. But maybe I’m misunderstanding why libgen is more convenient for you.
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Oh yea. That's part of it. Mostly, I don't want to go to the library to correct all the errors and I libgen lets me quickly skip that. The smartest thing would have been being very careful to correct bibtex citations *at the time I read each*. Alas...
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