Anna's Archive

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Short description: Search engine of shadow libraries
Anna's Archive
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  • Anna Archivist
  • Pirate Library Mirror[1]
Websiteannas-archive.org and alternative sites[2]
LaunchedNovember 10, 2022; 20 months ago (2022-11-10)[3]
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Anna's Archive is a search engine for shadow libraries. It was founded by the Pirate Library Mirror, a team of anonymous archivists, in direct response to law enforcement efforts to close down Z-Library in 2022.[1][4][5][6][7] It describes itself as a project that aims to "catalog all the books in existence" and to "track humanity's progress toward making all these books easily available in digital form".[4][8][9][dubious – discuss]

Anna's Archive mirrors Open Library, Library Genesis, Sci-Hub and Z-Library.[10][11][5] Anna's Archive says that it does not host copyrighted materials and that it only indexes metadata that is already publicly available.[4][12]

(As of February 2024), Anna's Archive includes 25,530,302 books and 99,425,822 papers.[13]

Further developments

In October 2023, Anna's Archive was reported to have "scraped" WorldCat, the world's largest book metadata database. Anna's Archive says that the scrape "marks a major milestone in mapping out all the books in the world" and that it allows them to "work on making a to-do list of all the books that still need to be preserved".[14][15]

In January 2024, Anna's Archive was blocked in Italy due to a copyright complaint by the Italian Publishers Association.[16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Van der Sar, Ernesto (November 19, 2022). ""Anna's Archive" Opens the Door to Z-Library and Other Pirate Libraries". TorrentFreak. https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-opens-the-door-to-z-library-and-other-pirate-libraries-221118/. Retrieved November 19, 2022. 
  2. ↑ Staff (November 14, 2023). "Homepage". Archived from the original on November 14, 2023. https://archive.today/2023.11.14-124403/https://annas-archive.org. Retrieved November 14, 2023. 
  3. ↑ "Whois annas-archive.org". https://www.whois.com/whois/annas-archive.org. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Manos, Leda (November 22, 2022). "Free Z-Library E-Book Download Search Engine "Anna's Archive" Launches Amid Arrests". LA Weekly. https://www.laweekly.com/free-z-library-e-book-download-search-engine-annas-archive-launches-amid-arrests/. Retrieved November 23, 2022. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Immanni, Manikanta (November 19, 2022). "Anna's Archive: A Search Engine for Finding Pirated Books Online". TechDator.com. https://techdator.net/annas-archive-search-engine-pirated-books-online/. Retrieved November 19, 2022. 
  6. ↑ Lefurgey, Berthe (November 19, 2022). "« Anna's Archive » ouvre la porte à Z-Library et à d'autres bibliothèques pirates" (in fr). Tech Tribune France. https://fr.techtribune.net/torrent/annas-archive-ouvre-la-porte-a-z-library-et-a-dautres-bibliotheques-pirates-techtribune-france/510311/. Retrieved November 19, 2022. 
  7. ↑ Stöckell, Marc (November 19, 2022). "Z-Library: Anna's Archive macht Schattenbibliothek durchsuchbar" (in de). tarnkappe.info. https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/e-books/z-library-annas-archive-macht-schattenbibliothek-durchsuchbar-259286.html. Retrieved November 20, 2022. 
  8. ↑ Mandel, Sovan (November 23, 2022). "New e-book download search engine 'Anna's Archive' will lead to shadow libraries like Z-Library". GoodEReader.com. https://goodereader.com/blog/technology/new-e-book-download-search-engine-annas-archive-will-lead-to-shadow-libraries-like-z-library. Retrieved November 23, 2022. 
  9. ↑ Staff (November 23, 2022). "New e-book download search engine 'Anna's Archive' will lead to shadow libraries like Z-Library". LiveWriters.com. https://www.livewriters.com/podcast/new-e-book-download-search-engine-annas-archive-will-lead-to-shadow-libraries-like-z-library/. Retrieved November 25, 2022. 
  10. ↑ Staff. "Datasets". https://www.annas-archive.org/datasets. 
  11. ↑ Iyer, Kavita (November 20, 2022). "Anna's Archive: eBooks Search Engine Emerges After Z-Library Shuts Down". Techworm.net. https://www.techworm.net/2022/11/anna-s-archive-ebook-search-engine.html. Retrieved November 20, 2022. 
  12. ↑ Staff (November 19, 2022). "Anna's Archive/About". Annas-archive.org. https://www.annas-archive.org/about. Retrieved November 19, 2022. 
  13. ↑ Staff (February 1, 2024). "Anna's Archive - official website". Anna's Archive. Archived from the original on February 1, 2024. https://archive.ph/wip/WlrjL. Retrieved February 1, 2024. 
  14. ↑ 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 October 3, 2023. https://archive.today/20231003220708/https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-scraped-worldcat-to-help-preserve-all-books-in-the-world-231003/. Retrieved October 5, 2023. 
  15. ↑ Staff (10 October 2023). "Pirated search engine 'Anna's Archive' acquires data from the world's largest library catalog, aiming to 'preserve all the books in the world'". Gigazine News. Archived from the original on 10 January 2024. https://archive.today/20240110163649/https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20231010-annas-archive-worldcat/. Retrieved 10 January 2024. 
  16. ↑ Maxwell, Andy (January 4, 2024). "Silenzio! ‘Anna’s Archive’ Shadow Library Blocked Following Publishers’ Complaint.". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on January 4, 2024. https://archive.today/20240104193707/https://torrentfreak.com/silenzio-annas-archive-shadow-library-blocked-following-publishers-complaint-240104/. Retrieved January 4, 2024. 

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