Anna's Archive is a free

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online shadow library

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providing access to a variety of book resources (also via

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), created by a team of anonymous archivists (referred to as

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and/or the Pirate Library Mirror (PiLiMi) team), and launched in direct response to law enforcement efforts, formally assisted by The Publishers Association and the

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, to close down the

Z-Library Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis, from which most of it ...

website in November 2022. As such, the Anna's Archive team claims to provide metadata access to Open Library materials, to be a backup of the

Library Genesis Library Genesis (Libgen) is a file-sharing based shadow library website for scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines. The site enables free access to content that is otherwise p ...

and Z-Library shadow libraries, presents

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information, has no copyrighted materials on its website, and only indexes metadata that is already publicly available. Anna's Archive notes that their website, a non-profit project, accepts donations to cover costs (hosting, domain names, development and related). Nonetheless, besides the recently launched Anna's Archive website, many other alternative workarounds to the recent attempts to take down the Z-Library website have been reported.

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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". 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 ... nd totrack humanity's progress toward making all these books easily available in digital form, through 'shadow libraries'." The team also noted, "We are at the other end of the spectrum [from

and related]; being very careful not to leave any trace, and having strong operational security.” According to the Anna's Archive website: "Spread the word about Anna’s Archive on Twitter, Reddit, Tiktok, Instagram, at your local cafe 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." Nonetheless, besides the recently launched Anna's Archive website, many other alternative workarounds to the recent attempts to take down the Z-Library website have been reported. Some of these purported alternative sites have submitted unusual takedown requests of their own, according to news reports.

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