Thanks for the recommendation for Library Genesis. I found 4⁄10 of the books I searched for on there, so not as good as my local library, but it eliminates having to wait.
I’d encourage people, though, to avoid reading books on a smart phone if possible. Reading on the one device that is most likely to distract you from reading seems like a failure-prone plan. I use a Kindle for ebooks, and it’s old and slow enough that I am not tempted to do anything but read on it.
That’s surprising low for LibGen. Are you perhaps looking for fiction works and forgetting to search the fiction database? It’s separate from the nonfiction (one of a number of really bad usability issues LG has is fragmented databases).
Maybe it would be also useful to use two web browsers, or two different profiles of the same browser, one for “serious work” (e.g. online banking) and one for “distractions” (e.g. social networks), with blockers set up to prevent misuse. Two different sets of bookmarks, different autocomplete answers, etc. This would make transition from work to wasting time less convenient.
The autocomplete mechanism is like offering someone a drink just when they try to stop drinking.
Thanks for the recommendation for Library Genesis. I found 4⁄10 of the books I searched for on there, so not as good as my local library, but it eliminates having to wait.
I’d encourage people, though, to avoid reading books on a smart phone if possible. Reading on the one device that is most likely to distract you from reading seems like a failure-prone plan. I use a Kindle for ebooks, and it’s old and slow enough that I am not tempted to do anything but read on it.
That’s surprising low for LibGen. Are you perhaps looking for fiction works and forgetting to search the fiction database? It’s separate from the nonfiction (one of a number of really bad usability issues LG has is fragmented databases).
Maybe it would be also useful to use two web browsers, or two different profiles of the same browser, one for “serious work” (e.g. online banking) and one for “distractions” (e.g. social networks), with blockers set up to prevent misuse. Two different sets of bookmarks, different autocomplete answers, etc. This would make transition from work to wasting time less convenient.
The autocomplete mechanism is like offering someone a drink just when they try to stop drinking.