Gen.lib.rus.ev (2025)

| Category | Quantity | |----------|----------| | Scientific articles | ~80+ million | | Books (all fields) | ~3+ million | | Comic books & fiction | ~1+ million | | Total storage | > 200 TB (mirrored across multiple countries) |

Whether you call it digital Robin Hood or digital theft, one fact remains: It has forced universities to negotiate better open-access deals and pushed publishers to create cheaper options. And as long as paywalls exist, LibGen’s descendants will rise again. “You can kill the domain, but you cannot kill the idea.” — Anonymous LibGen sysadmin, 2024 gen.lib.rus.ev