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Anna's Blog
annas-blog.org · Company blog · on HN since 2022
The blog of Anna's Archive, a shadow library, covering how it operates, its book collections, and data releases such as ISBNdb and IPFS seeding.
What HN saysHN commenters point to it for the technical and operational write-up on running a shadow library, and for its post on counting preserved books.
21HN people shared it
11linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1How to run a shadow library: operations at Anna’s Archive5 people · 4 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 23x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror4 people · 624 points · first shared 2022 · 558 comments on HN
- 3How to become a pirate archivist2 people · 856 points · first shared 2022 · 99 comments on HN
- 4Help seed Z-Library on IPFS2 people · 269 points · first shared 2022 · 140 comments on HN
- 5ISBNdb dump – how many books are preserved forever?2 people · 174 points · first shared 2022 · 38 comments on HN
- 6Anna’s Archive Containers (AAC): standardizing releases2 people · 5 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 7The Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of Books (Not in Libgen)2 people · 5 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 8Putting Z-Library on IPFS1 people · 355 points · first shared 2022 · 129 comments on HN
- 9Anna’s Archive has backed up the world’s largest comics shadow library1 people · 4 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 10Anna’s Archive Datasets1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 111.3B Worldcat scrape and data science mini-competition1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 12Anna’s Update: fully open source archive, Elasticsearch, 300GB+ of book covers1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 13Homepage1 people · first shared 2023
What HN people wrote when they linked it
seanthemon · 2023-10-20
I highly recommend giving his/her blog post [0] a read.
[0] https://annas-blog.org/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html
TechBro8615 · 2023-06-30
I followed the "blog" link in the footer and found some interesting posts, like this one [0] about the technical and operational details of running the archive.
[0] https://annas-blog.org/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html
okramcivokram · 2023-05-05
It's around 31TB right now, you can read more about it on https://annas-blog.org/ or get the data from https://annas-archive.org/
dsaw12 · 2023-08-28
I think there was a blog post by the site owner about how it's ran (also linked in dang's comment)
https://annas-blog.org/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html
majkinetor · 2023-07-09
Also, good post about counting worlds books: https://annas-blog.org/blog-isbndb-dump-how-many-books-are-preserved-f…
aftbit · 2022-11-23
Not according to the author:
We are happy to announce that we have gotten all books that were added to the Z-Library between our last mirror and August 2022. We have also gone back and scraped some books that we missed the first time around. All in all, this new collection is about 24TB, which is much bigger than the last one (7TB). Our mirror is now 31TB in total. Again, we deduplicated against Library Genesis, since there are already torrents available for that collection.
http://annas-blog.org/blog-3x-new-books.html
KoftaBob · 2022-11-23
The instructions specifically state to use a VPN, no different from bittorrent in that regard.
http://annas-blog.org/help-seed-zlibrary-on-ipfs.html
sombragris · 2022-11-17
To some extent, yes. The site limited downloads unless you were a paid user.
For more context see this recent HN-linked blog post:
http://annas-blog.org/blog-3x-new-books.html
AkshatJ27 · 2022-11-17
> Z-Library is a popular (and illegal) library. They have taken the Library Genesis collection and made it easily searchable. On top of that, they have become very effective at soliciting new book contributions, by incentivizing contributing users with various perks. They currently do not contribute these new books back to Library Genesis. And unlike Library Genesis, they do not make their collection easily mirrorable, which prevents wide preservation. This is important to their business model, since they charge money for accessing their collection in bulk (more than 10 books per day).
(http://annas-blog.org/blog-3x-new-books.html)
JustSomeNobody · 2022-11-09
There's a person who comments on some of the z-lib posts and they are the ones who archived z-lib (and some other sites). If I can find it, I'll edit this comment.
Here. Her name is Anna.
http://annas-blog.org/blog-introducing.html
http://pilimi.org/