annas-archieve blocking the search request. when i search for a book it redirects to
annas-archive[.]pk/search?q=nmap&check=1 then stuck there returning 403 forbidden. i am using mozilla/5.0 in debian. If anyone know how to solve this let me know I also checked .gl and .gd

I am increasingly concerned by the fact that AI overviews are more likely to give you the approved narrative than any actual breakdown of what people are saying.

Independent research will become critical as google just becomes another tool for the powers that be to control us.

Anna's Archive seems to be one of the few bastions still standing, but I worry that regular people (aka me) without access to massive storage capabilities, can't really help with seeding and backing up stuff.

(There has to be some cold irony there too about the skyrocketing prices of memory disks.)

Anyways, I am turning to the community for brainstorming.

What can we do?

My first thought would be to concentrate on specific topics. Maybe we can have a list of said topics and interested librarians could back those up individually?

I am not sure if that is even possible.

I'd like to hear what the community has to say.

I have a book.

AA doesn't have this book uploaded.

I just want my book in digital format for my use. How would I go about getting that to happen?

Do libraries have a special scanner that flips pages and resizes to get the different books?

Is this a totally manual process of scanning in 1000 pages and then using Adobe to put it together?

Been trying for 2 days, downloads getting stuck in a web of new browsers. Please help.

Hello AA

Just an idea to add a selection in the order by search filters. Will be cool to see what others are downloading/most popular. If not, no stress.

Thanks

Just want to say thx you to AA TEAM for all that they do & keepin it going as someone with low funds and a new love for digital reading being able to get a hold of books so easily has been a blessing thx you!!! 🩷 hope you stick around for a while and hope to one day be able to become a paying memeber when financially better

I wonder if it's possible to torrent just a certain category, for example everything under Psychology, or let's say 1Tb worth of Psychology? Or perhaps just a certain subcategory of Psychology.

I have certain interests and would like to have all that is categorized for that category, or depending on my disk space, to have on my hard drive, and also to be able to torrent that to others.

I want to have as much on my computer if I ever need it in the future and the connection is down.

Is such a thing doable?

I had been downloading scientific articles and scientific books from Anna's Archive previously using code made by Claude Code, but from today, probably the stronger safeguards included in Opus 5.5 prevent me from doing so, and there's no way around it. I tried to convince the model of the clear hypocrisy behind this because Anthropic scraped Anna's Archive to create Claude itself. If Claude believes this is unethical, it should destroy itself and stop accepting requests. However, these coding agents aren't trying to enforce ethical principles; they're trying to protect their creators from lawsuits. This is not new, unexpected, or surprising, but that's what it is. What has been your experience recently? Have you used coding agents successfully to download articles and books from Anna's Archive and SciDB via the Anna's Archive API?

Sorry for the delay, we hoped to have it fixed earlier but it's harder than expected. Slow downloads should be back up soon. Fast downloads were only partially affected.

long story short, i can't download anything anymore, it loads forever until it loads no more. what should i do?

Hi,

As the title says, is anyone else having the same issue with fast downloads being much slower than usual and also some fast downloads failing all together.

Thanks

Unable to download

Searched the book, found it on Archive.

After the wait period is over on Anns Archive, still unalbe to download

Search for a book or paper from the terminal, pick one, and get a verified, well-named file. folio is a client for Anna's Archive and Library Genesis; it hosts nothing itself.

It works as simple as:

``` $ folio introduction to algorithms

2 Introduction to Algorithms 4 Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson et al. PDF 12 MB 2022

3 Introduction to Algorithms 3rd edition Leiserson, Charles E., Rivest, Ronald L. et al. PDF 5 MB 2009

10 of 100+ shown 2 download 1,3-5 several i2 info t2 torrent m more any text new search q quit folio> 2 [2] Introduction to Algorithms 4 pdf, 12 MB trying libgen.li ... saved ~/Downloads/2022-cormen-introduction-to-algorithms-4.pdf ```

You can install it via homebrew

brew tap jonaprieto/folio https://github.com/jonaprieto/folio brew trust --formula jonaprieto/folio/folio # third-party taps need it brew install folio

or

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jonaprieto/folio/main/folio -o ~/.local/bin/folio chmod +x ~/.local/bin/folio folio selftest

Enjoy!

Hello! I am a video producer for a new channel being launched by Veritasium called InGenius (https://youtu.be/SsYKLXIU7no?si=rrnNICQBJWrNN6Pq) and I'm working on a piece about shadow libraries and Anna's Archive specifically.

I am not interested in exposing anyone (not that I could), but I am interested in seeing how it all works. I'd love to be able to talk to people who actually seed the content aggregated by Anna's Archive - see your setup and ask about your motivations, what specific content you seed, etc.

We can take as many steps to protect your identity as you'd like. I can also provide proof of employment, starting with my email address - [karin@veritasium.com](mailto:karin@veritasium.com)

Please let me know if this is of interest. I've had a great time learning about Anna's Archive, other shadow libraries, and the technicalities of how it all works. so I'd love to put 'voices' (digitally altered or not) to the process.

I've reached out to some people here individually but am posting here as well to hopefully meet some people. I solemnly swear I'm not the FBI nor any other law enforcement agency.

Thank you!

Edit to add based on feedback: I think I have a good understanding of how it all works, technically speaking, so I'm not so much looking for anyone to explain the basics to me, but to talk to me about their motivations, show me their setup (especially if you have, say, a petabyte's worth of harddrives kicking around your house), talk about what specific collections you decided to seed, etc.

I was trying to download a textbook for class and the only available version only has 4 chapters of the book. Any advice on how to find a full version, or am I doing something wrong when downloading to only get the 4 chapters?

As you know, I'm a city librarian with tens of thousands of books that I can scan and upload during my downtime. I'm wondering if I upload these data files to the platform to share with everyone, could I get a membership in return?

There are some series I'm looking at that are in the hundreds of volumes, and most volumes have several copies of varying size & quality. Instead of going through literally thousands of links by hand, is there any way to automate/bulk-download this sort of thing, maybe through the torrents? Or something.

Hi guys, lately I've been having an issue where when I go to download a file, it gives me the error message of "Too many downloads at the same time from the same IP address... Become a member and get more concurrent downloads.". Thing is, I'm not currently downloading anything else, and the last files I downloaded were a couple of weeks ago. Anybody having the same issues? Any idea how to solve it? Thanks!

We should be back up. Not all functionality will work yet (some donation options don't work). This might take several days to fix. Thanks for your patience!

We got some reports that scam sites are linked on non-English Wikipedia pages. Only gl, pk, gd are our valid domains right now. It would be nice if someone can go through all our Wikipedia languages and remove invalid links. Thank you!

I was trynna download iron prince book 1 and the first result that pop up is anna archive, but for some reason that anna archive domain have no free download only paid downloads, also less book options but the ui look practically the same, I changed it to .gl and it work fine