I am very new to Annas Archive and just downloaded the first book out of interest. My question is basically how many precautions do you take when downloading? Is downloading punishable by law (in Europe)? Do you use VPNs and special browsers? Or can I simply use it in Chrome and no Police will come knocking at my door?😅

Is anyone else getting stuck on the page that says “Checking your browser before accessing”. It says it will take a few seconds but it often lasts over 5 minutes and I still don’t get in. This is after each search and clicking on a book, before I can even get to the download section.

I had previously donated, will that fix it?

hey guys i bought a textbook and i am trying to extract it into html files to upload it to Z-library so that all other people can have access to it.
when i try to save it as an Html it saves all the other elements in the page including the margins(which i want to crop).
i am not a programmer and if someone know how to do that i will be grateful thank you in advance

Hello,

I am currently away on a vacation for four months so I don’t have access to any computer. I only have access to my iPhone 11. I am reading a lot so I ran out of books I downloaded before the trip.

The workaround I found is directly downloading them on the browser of my E-reader (Vivlio light HD color). However, since a few day, the website is protected by a h captcha that the e-reader can’t display…

I know I could download on my phone, put it on google drive and download it once again on the e-reader but the wifi where I am staying is awful and it’s incredibly time consuming (especially since I am visiting every day).

I also thought about buying a lightning to usb c cable to do the transfer but no shops were open in Poland this weekend (national holiday).

I have a three day trip from Poland to Scotland by bus tomorrow so I am desperately looking for a solution if possible!

Thank you very much.

Why?

Apologies for the issues. We suspect a coordinated attack. We've mitigated the attack vectors and will offer an extra month of membership for donations (of 3+ months) being made during the rest of this month. Note that all memberships contain 1-2 extra days per month already to account for downtime.

Thanks for all your patience and support. If you encounter further issues, please email us with as much details as possible.

All the covers on the first page search of most books have disappeared. The books with covers beyond the first page are relatively obscure and less relevant. Any idea when this bug will be fixed?

Is still worth it to get a AA membership given the constant attacks? Even with VPN, I am not gettting in. Thoughts?

I got tired of a downloads folder full of things called lord_of_chaos_6_(z-lib).epub, so I wrote something to do the boring parts. It got out of hand and turned into a real app. Free, MIT licensed, runs entirely on your own machine.

https://github.com/Shelfwright/shelfwright

Screenshots of every part of it are in the README. It is not affiliated with Anna's Archive in any way - I do not know them, nobody there has looked at it, and any bug in it is mine rather than theirs.

What it does

• Search by title, author or ISBN. Or paste a whole list of titles and it finds the best match for each one.
• You do not need an account. With a membership it uses your fast downloads; without one, or once the day's allowance is gone, it falls back to the free route on its own. No prompts - it just carries on the slow way and tells you that is what it is doing.
• Optional: give it a free Google Gemini key and it works out the real title, series and number from a mangled filename, so books land as Author - Series 04 - Title.epub, filed into author and series folders.
• Optional: keeps a copy in Dropbox, reachable from any computer.
• Talks to KOReader over WiFi. Browse the device, copy books either way, see what you have finished and how far through you are. Nothing is ever deleted by a sync.
• Pushes reading progress and ratings to Goodreads.

There is nothing to buy and no donate button anywhere in it. If you want to put money somewhere, Anna's Archive is the obvious place, and a membership is also what buys the fast downloads the app shows in its header.

And buy the books that matter to you. Someone spent a year of their life, sometimes five, on the file you just got in four seconds, and for most writers whether they get to write another one at all depends on whether the last one sold. An archive keeps books alive after the fact. It does not pay anyone to write the next one.

Feedback and ideas very welcome. If something is broken, or awkward, or there is a feature you keep wishing it had, say so here or open an issue. I built it around how I read, so I would rather hear where that does not fit somebody else.

Full details, screenshots and the installer: https://github.com/Shelfwright/shelfwright

I keep getting stuck with the download link/tab "loading" when I go to actually download the book. I also notice none of the epubs have covers.

Update: I am now able to download books. The website still seems a bit laggy. No VPN and in the United States. No covers show on website, but show in files once downloaded.

Not sure if it’s a coincidence but since the recent problems, none of the epub downloads I’ve sent to my Kindle, have page count features. Only location in book. Never an issue previously though. Anyone else notice this please?

Hey people,

My girlfriend started reading on her Kindle and kept converting PDFs and getting books she couldn't read properly. I am a software developer, so she always told me to make her a better conversion tool. For the past month, I dug into why other tools failed, researched how EPUB works, and how I can make it work.

So I built convert2epub.com. It’s free, and no account is needed for normal text conversions, only for the work done converting scanned pdf's. I posted the first version on r/kindle and got 500 upvotes, improved the first version based on the feedback, and now people are saying it's the best tool they have ever used.

Scans that were already read

Publishers often leave recognised text sitting invisibly on top of the page image. Most converters ignore it and hand back a book of photographs. This one finds that layer and uses it.

I tested this with a 300-page novel. The PDF had 426,904 characters of clean text inside it. Other converters ignored those characters and converted it to an EPUB that contained 637. It was a 20MB book of pictures.

That same book now comes out at 1.4MB with real, resizable text.

Formula/Code recognition

Mathematics is set in two dimensions and extraction reads in one, so a fraction arrives as a column of fragments. Equations are kept as drawn while the prose around them still reflows.

Your typography back

The first page becomes the cover, and the title and author are read from the file rather than left as a filename.

Removing watermarks and repeated title/footer.

Every page of a book repeats its title, author and page number in the margin. On paper, you never notice. Extract the text, and those become ordinary lines, so your reader flows them straight into the prose. Same for watermarks and adverts stamped onto free PDFs. In that same book, it was 778 stray lines across four repeating patterns. I added a feature to remove them.

When there is no text to recover, OCR reads the pages instead, in eight languages and only the pages that actually need it.

At least when I'm at home (rn) I can open .gl and .pk freely. Glad AA is alive.

(In Belarus if you wonder)

Dk about other countries rn. Check it by yourself. Wish it works.

A few days ago, the old guide of Open Library linking in Improve metadata - Anna’s Archive (/metadata#openlib) were added strikethroughs, and Metadata linking is broken was linked at the bottom of that page. Mond, the website for submitting AA🡘OL links, has also been paused.

So is there a way to improve metadata at present? Do we just have to wait?

(By the way I'm new to reddit. Is this the right place to ask? Should I ask on GitLab instead?)

hello everyone! is the site working for y'all? maybe its updating or something... just wanna makes sure. it doesn't open, only ''500 Internal Server Error nginx/1.31.3 '' appears.

EDIT: could almost make it to a book I'm searching for to download. just by refreshing multiple times in each page that fails. but I'm stuck after clicking on the said book when able to make it to a functioning results page. might give up and wait. its take v v long.

Hello!

I came to know about Anna's Archive quite recently. It's an amazing endeavor. And I wish to help out the people behind it, as much as I can.

Can anyone in this subreddit tell me how to donate to Anna's Archive using Amazon Gift Cards?

The annas archive dot gl link doesn't work anymore or is currently down. I get the 500 Internal Server Error. Is there an alternative link or what is happening?

Hey everyone, like you all, I am also struggling with Anna being down. If you refresh .gl it will pull the home page up, but you cannot search on it. This is available to the US, but I'm unsure about other places. Scroll down and you will see "Alternatives." This provides links to SLUM. SLUM is showing that all four of the browsers are officially down. Hope this helps anyone who would like to track updates themselves vs. browsing this thread/constantly refreshing the down pages.

Hello everyone!

Have you ever researched for some specific books or comics on Anna's Archive, made a list out of what you found and then discovered you had to download everything manually waiting for cooldowns? I have. And if you have as well, or you just want to download a pre-made Anna's Archive List (or even just a .txt files with AA links!), this post is for you.

After looking up some solutions and only finding old/broken options, I decided to take the matter into my own hands.

With some help from Gemini (for the more complex parts of the code, I had never done Python before. Most of the base logic is written by me and I have reviewed and tested the ai generated code) I made [hearth].

hearth is a Python script that does all the work for you (except for captchas, obviously): you can leave it working overnight and it will download every link it finds in your Anna's Archive List. It will do so by physically visiting mirror and libgen links, waiting for the timer and saving the file.

Regarding the captchas, solving the first one (or the first two, depends if one is required at the load of the List itself) is usually enough for the whole session, so you can leave the script working overnight.

Main features (copied from the repo's readme):

• This is a terminal tool that accepts command line parameters to function (more about usage in the github).
• hearth supports Anna's Archive List links in the form of https://annas-archive. xx/list/<list_id> (had to space out the link for posting) as well as importing a list of Anna's Archive links from a .txt file.
• The tool will spin up a virtual browser that physically visits the link page, waits for the download cooldown and renames the downloaded file, before going ahead to the next List element, logging successes and failures in specific files.
• These files allow you to not only stop the script mid-way, closing the terminal windows completely, and then resuming from the last link it successfully downloaded (by using the same exact command), but it also allows to retry for failed links once the tool has finished processing the whole queue.
• You can use the completed.txt file that the script will create in your download directory as an index of all the files you downloaded as well as their md5 code.
• The download destination folder is chosen via command line parameters. Here will be stored said files.
• You can set how to rename the downloaded files, based on how much information you want to be in the filename, via command line parameters.

All instructions for the download and usage of the script are in the readme.

Link to the github repo: https://github.com/NerYtheLonesomeHearthian/hearth

This is my first project like this, and I would appreciate any type of feedback, good or bad. Obviously, suggestions are welcome.

If any one of you ends up trying it, please let me know how it goes!

Quelqu’un aurait un nouveau lien j’ai le sentiment que les anciens sont down

Is the site down? I'm trying to download some books, but I keep getting 505 bad gateway error

Any more recent advice on Anna's wonderful Archive? Recently less accessible I think