BookFI Alternatives

The Pirate Bay

Known as "the world's most resilient BitTorrent site", The Pirate Bay is a website that lets you search for, download, and upload torrents. Download music...

Features:

• Torrent search
• Search engine
• Download torrents
• Web-Based
• Torrent search

RARBG

RARBG is a website, founded in 2008, that provides torrent files and magnet links to facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol. Its categories...

Features:

• Torrent search
• Team work

Library Genesis

Controversial database of paywalled articles and other hard to find academic content.

Features:

• Free books
• Search engine

SCI-HUB

Sci-Hub is a website with over 64.5 million academic papers and articles available for direct download. It bypasses publisher paywalls by allowing access through...

Features:

• Built-in VPN
• Research repository
• Search engine

BTDigg

BTDigg is the BitTorrent DHT search engine. It analyses the DHT network in the real-time and provides full-text search over active torrents! BTDigg is not a...

Features:

• DHT scraping
• DHT search
• Meta-Search
• Torrent search

ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect provides subscription-based access to a large database of scientific and medical research. It hosts over 12 million pieces of content from 3,500 academic...

Features:

• Journal
• Library

arXiv

arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for scholarly articles.

Libgen Desktop

Libgen Desktop is a Windows application for browsing a local copy of LibGen catalog. The main (non-fiction), fiction and scientific articles (scimag) LibGen collections...

Features:

• Article search
• Multiple languages