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It seems you now have to create an account to download anything. Or am I using the wrong link?

Seems so, although it says here [1] you can just email them for a link.

You should be able to create an account on that domain here (unless something has changed since I last registered) https://singlelogin.me/registration.php

You get your own personal domain/subdomain of zlibrary after logging in