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The only reason I can think of to get that data is to circumvent archive.org's limitations on renting out stuff so your bots can slurp books without getting throttled.
That is, my best guess is that this was pirates seeing if they can't add to libgen.
Or it's a "prove you can do stuff" kind of deal.