This is a bit anecdotal, but I did upload a book to libgen. I am am avid user of the site, and during my thesis research I was looking for a specific book and could not find it on there. I did however find it on archive.org. I spent the better half of one afternoon extracting the book from archive.org with some Adobe software, since I had to circumvent some DRM and other things, and all of this was also novel to me. In the end I got a scanned PDF, which had several hundred MB. I managed to reduce it to 47 MB, however further reduction was not easily possible at least not with the means I knew or had at my disposal. I uploaded this version to libgen.
I do agree that there may be some large files on there, however I dont agree with removing them. I spent some
hours to put this book on there so others who need it can access it within seconds. Removing it because it is too large would void all this effort and require future users to go through a similar process than i did just to browse through the book.
Also any book published today is most likely available in some ebook format, which is much smaller in size, so I dont think that the size of libgen will continue to grow at the same pace as it is doing now.
I do agree that there may be some large files on there, however I dont agree with removing them. I spent some hours to put this book on there so others who need it can access it within seconds. Removing it because it is too large would void all this effort and require future users to go through a similar process than i did just to browse through the book.
Also any book published today is most likely available in some ebook format, which is much smaller in size, so I dont think that the size of libgen will continue to grow at the same pace as it is doing now.