I've used both libgen and z-library to search for books over the last year. Maybe a hundred of books, mostly old fiction works (translated) in English and French (authors like Joseph Roth or Aleksandr Kouprin). Z-lib had much more results than libgen.
I've read several times that z-library is a fork of libgen and that their contents are similar, but that's not my experience at all.
I've read several times that z-library is a fork of libgen and that their contents are similar, but that's not my experience at all.