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Anna's Archive
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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; 23 months ago (2022-11-10)[2]
Current statusActive
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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]

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 November 1, 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. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b c d e f 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. ^ a b c d 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. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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 (November 1, 2023). "Anna's Archive - official website". Anna's Archive. Archived from the original on 2023-11-01. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  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 2023-10-03. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
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