I’m just a spectre out of the nothingness, surviving inside a biological system.
Firstly, I search for the book among Telegram book groups. Then, Google/DDG/Bing/Yandex results for “[title of the book i’m searching] filetype:pdf”. If neither yields the book, I turn on my Tor and try to find it inside Imperial Library of Trantor. Worst case scenario, I try to find a working Z-Library HS. But some comments here added to my possibilities, such as Libgen (I knew Libgen from onion, but it’s interesting to see it also routeable on surface).
I’m not sure about the LinkedIn’s situation in other countries but, in the country I live in, except for those jobs who have the “Easy Apply”, most of the jobs from LinkedIn redirect LinkedIn’s users to third-party platforms (such as “Gupy”, a HR platform used by many brazilian corps). For every single job one wishes to apply, Gupy will require them to fill all their information again and again. It’s infuriating for those who’re seeking a job…
The “Easy Apply” also doesn’t really help. Several jobs aren’t jobs at all, but designed to fill HR’s “talent pools”. Not to mention the AI-based filtering that HRs are using to select candidates based on “secret keywords”, without previous interviewing of such candidate. “Human” resources, as they call themselves. LinkedIn is just an echo chamber for such HRs.
Lastly, I also deactivated my LinkedIn profile (“Hibernated” it), yet I keep receiving those emails (“Your account is still hibernating”)…
I’m Brazilian so I generally use public Brazilian (Portuguese) groups, publicly available through Telegram searches such as “Livros grátis” (“Free books” in Portuguese) or “livros pdf” (“pdf books”). There probably are similar anglophone groups as well.