Library Genesis: Where To Download Free Ebooks

Library Genesis is a file-sharing shadow library that makes available all types of library materials for free. You can download free ebooks from this website.

Library Genesis or LibGen as people call it is one of the many e-libraries out there that share all types of books for free regardless of copyright licenses.

LibGen’s history dates as far back as 1980. In this simple article, I am going to explain everything you must know about the library.

Library Genesis Collections

LibGen has a collection of books almost every type of book you might get in any physical library.

The collections include scholarly journals, magazines, storybooks, comics, fiction, articles, etc. There are also images of artworks in their archives.

Since it is an online library, all of the materials are only for you to view or download. It also means that some physical library materials can not be there.

The collections are from all over the world regardless of copyright license and users can download them for free.

Library Genesis Mirror Sites

Library Genesis mirror sites refer to domains that point to the LibGen servers. In a simple explanation, website addresses that you can type in your browser to get to the LibGen home page.

Someone might ask, “Why does LibGen have so many different mirror sites?”.

There are mirror sites because Library Genesis is not a legal entity hence their domains get blacklisted or get taken offline completely most of the time. To counter this, LibGen has to either be shifting from one domain to the other.

While most of these sites might be actual Library Genesis mirror sites. It does not guarantee that they will be the go-to URL whenever you want to get something from the LibGen database. They get taken down all the time.

Below are the Library Genesis mirror sites that are currently working. I will make sure to update them very often so you get a working link all the time.

URLLast Checked
https://libgen.is/September 2022
https://libgen.st/September 2022
https://libgen.gs/September 2022
https://libgen.li/September 2022
http://libgen.rs/September 2022
https://libgen.lcSeptember 2022
https://libgen.fun/September 2022

As soon as you visit any of these Library Genesis mirror sites, you should see a homepage similar to or the same as the one in the image below.

Library Genesis Mirror sites

How To Download Free Ebooks

Downloading free ebooks is the major reason why most people love LibGen. If you don’t know how to do that yet, then stay with me through this simple LibGen Guide.

I have a book in mind by “V. Y. Mudimbe” and the title is “Tales of Faith“. Let us search for that on LibGen and download it.

libgen book search

You can simply type the name of your Author or the Title of the book to search.

library genesis search results

As you can see in the image above there are four books that were found with my search term.

  1. Shows the name of the Author whose book I want
  2. The Title of the book to make sure it is exactly what I am looking for.
  3. Showing six free PDF download direct links.

Clicking on any of the 6 download links will open a download page that will look similar to the image below. It will also show more information about the book.

libgen download page

Simply clicking any of the six links again below the page will take you to the original download page.

library genesis download page

Clicking on the “Download” button will trigger an in-browser download.

Save file from libgen

You finally have to click on “Save file” to save the file to your device.

While the pages may look a bit different on mobile devices, just know that the buttons and links are still the same no matter the device.

Is Library Genesis Safe?

In terms of viruses, Yes. It is safe when you think about it from the downloading of the contents from the site perspective. The reason it is safe like that is the fact that you are downloading a PDF file, from a direct link. If it is a torrent file, that is when there will be lots of concerns about hidden malware.

In terms of legal issues, No. It is not safe. The contents of LibGen are copyright contents that are being pirated and piracy is an offense.

The website has even been blacklisted in some countries by high Authorities. Since most of the contents are pirated, users access them at their own risk.

LibGen and all its other Alternatives are pirating copyright contents so they are illegal everywhere.

If you want to download free PDF files legally instead, you can check out my article on How to get ebooks to download for free.

Sites Like Library Genesis

There are many other sites like Library Genesis. These websites are also shadow libraries that come with lots of free ebooks.

One of the major sites like Library Genesis is Z Library. It is also one of the oldest shadow libraries on the internet so far.

Apart from the Z library, there are other websites like LibGen and all those websites are Z library alternatives.

Z library and all its alternatives are Library Genesis alternatives. You should check my previous article that talks about the Top 20 Z library alternatives we have currently.

Library Genesis FAQs

You might probably have a few questions about Library Genesis you might want to be answered.

In this section of my article, I will try as much as possible to answer your questions. If there is a question that has not been answered on this page, kindly leave it in the comment box and I will answer it as early as possible.

Why is Library Genesis illegal?

Library Genesis is illegal because almost all the materials that are distributed on the website are copyright protected but they are distributed for free. That infringes on the rights of the publication owner.

Conclusion

The Genesis Library is a place where you can get free ebooks and other library materials to download. But one must also take into account the legal aspects of using the website.

This article is only for educational purposes, hence if you practice what is written here, you do it at your own risk.

If you think there is something I must touch on that I didn’t, you can always leave a comment.
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