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		unicornporn on Aug 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Libgen-text: complete Library Genesis, re-packaged... > not everyone has the software installed to unpack them People downloading 2 TB of compressed books in plain text format are not exactly the definition of "everyone". > Yes, there's a lot better compression available these days Tell me more!

VHRanger on Aug 23, 2022 [–]

zstd: https://github.com/facebook/zstd

Or any of the ones they benchmark against in their .README (lz4, snappy, zlib, etc.)

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