Anna's Archive

Anna's Archive is a free non-profit online shadow library metasearch engine providing access to a variety of book resources (also via IPFS), created by a team of anonymous archivists (referred to as Anna and/or the Pirate Library Mirror (PiLiMi) team),[1] and launched in direct response to law enforcement efforts, formally assisted by The Publishers Association and the Authors Guild, to close down Z-Library in November 2022.[2][5][6]

Anna's Archive
Plain-text saying "Anna's Archive".
Official logo of the Anna's Archive website
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Anna's Archive Homepage (September 26, 2023)
Type of site
Search engine, Digital library, File sharing[1][2][3]
Created byAnna and/or the Pirate Library Mirror (PiLiMi) team[2]
URLannas-archive.org;[1] and related.[4]
LaunchedNovember 10, 2022 (2022-11-10)[2]
Current statusActive
Part of a series on
File sharing
File hosts
Video sharing sites
BitTorrent sites
Media servers
Technologies
File sharing networks
Academic
P2P clients
Anonymous file sharing
History and societal aspects
By country or region
Comparisons

As such, the Anna's Archive team claims to provide metadata access to Open Library materials, to be a backup of the Library Genesis, Sci-Hub and Z-Library shadow libraries,[2][7] presents ISBN information, has no copyrighted materials on its website, and only indexes metadata that is already publicly available.[2][3][5][8][9][10] Anna's Archive notes that their website, a non-profit project, accepts donations to cover costs (hosting, domain names, development and related).[3]

As of October 2023, the Anna's Archive website claims to be the "world’s largest open-source open-data library," consisting of 22,052,322 books, 97,847,390 papers, 2,451,032 comics, and 673,013 magazines.[11]

Description

Anna's Archive notes that "information wants to be free", and that team members "strongly believe in the free flow of information, and preservation of knowledge and culture".[3][12][13] According to the website, Anna's Archive ("search engine of shadow libraries: books, papers, comics, magazines") is a "project that aims to catalog all the books in existence, by aggregating data from various sources ... [and to] track humanity's progress toward making all these books easily available in digital form, through 'shadow libraries'."[14][15][16] The team also noted, "We are at the other end of the spectrum [from Z-Library and related]; being very careful not to leave any trace, and having strong operational security.”[5][8][9] According to the Anna's Archive website: "Spread the word about Anna’s Archive on Twitter, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, at your local café or library, or wherever you go! We don’t believe in gatekeeping — if we get taken down, we’ll just pop right up elsewhere, since all our code and data is fully open source."[17][18]

Future development

On October 3, 2023, Anna's Archive is reported to have "scraped" WorldCat, a union catalog, in an effort to help preserve "all" books in the world, and accordingly, to help save, in the words of Anna's Archive, the "legacy of humanity".[19]

See also

References
  1. Staff (December 7, 2022). "Anna's Archive". Archived from the original on 2022-12-07. Retrieved 2022-12-07.Wayback (//Blog); ArchiveToday:(Main/About/Blog)
  2. Van der Sar, Ernesto (November 19, 2022). ""Anna's Archive" Opens the Door to Z-Library and Other Pirate Libraries". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 2022-11-19. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  3. Staff (November 19, 2022). "Anna's Archive/About". Annas-archive.org. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  4. Staff (January 29, 2023). "Anna's Archive - Twitter - Related Site(s)". Anna's Archive. Archived from the original on 2023-01-29. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  5. Manos, Leda (November 22, 2022). "Free Z-Library E-Book Download Search Engine "Anna's Archive" Launches Amid Arrests". LA Weekly. Archived from the original on 2022-11-23. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  6. Multiple sources:
  7. Van der Sar, Ernesto (January 12, 2023). "Pirate Libraries Remain Popular Among Academics, Research Finds". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  8. Iyer, Kavita (November 20, 2022). "Anna's Archive: eBooks Search Engine Emerges After Z-Library Shuts Down". Techworm.net. Archived from the original on 2022-11-20. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  9. Immanni, Manikanta (November 19, 2022). "Anna's Archive: A Search Engine for Finding Pirated Books Online". TechDator.com. Archived from the original on 2022-11-19. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  10. Multiple sources:
  11. Staff (October 10, 2023). "Anna's Archive - official website". Anna's Archive. Archived from the original on 2023-10-10. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  12. Woodcock, Claire (November 30, 2022). "'Shadow Libraries' Are Moving Their Pirated Books to The Dark Web After Fed Crackdowns - Academic repositories like LibGen and Z-Library are becoming less accessible on the web, but finding a home on alt-networks like Tor and IPFS". Vice. Archived from the original on 2022-11-30. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
  13. Staff (November 30, 2022). "Will Library Genesis & Co Move to the Dark Web?". DnStats.net. Archived from the original on 2022-12-01. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
  14. Staff (November 19, 2022). "Anna's Archive". Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  15. Mandel, Sovan (November 23, 2022). "New e-book download search engine 'Anna's Archive' will lead to shadow libraries like Z-Library". GoodEReader.com. Archived from the original on 2022-11-24. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  16. Staff (November 23, 2022). "New e-book download search engine 'Anna's Archive' will lead to shadow libraries like Z-Library". LiveWriters.com. Archived from the original on 2022-11-25. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  17. Staff (January 2023). "Anna's Archive - How To Help". Anna's Archive. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
  18. Staff (January 2023). "Anna's Archive - Software". Anna's Archive. Archived from the original on 2023-01-17. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
  19. Van der Sar, Ernesto (October 3, 2023). "Anna's Archive Scraped WorldCat to Help Preserve 'All' Books in the World". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 2023-10-04. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
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