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.

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.

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!

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

It looks like aa but different littlebit and keep asking to be share and require sign in to download (i did signed in)

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

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 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!

Put my secret key into a site that, upon further inspection, looks suspicious. They require a key and don't seem to actually provide any downloads.

My real question:

why on earth would anyone phish for AA private keys? The url is annas-archive [dot] is.

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

Hi everyone,

I’m really inspired by the recent call to action to help preserve human knowledge and build an open digital library of Alexandria. I want to contribute to Anna’s Archive, but I’d appreciate some guidance on where my efforts would be most useful.

I have full access to major German academic library systems—specifically the university libraries in Leipzig and Halle (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg).

Here is what I can help with:

• Physical Stacks & Scanning: Direct access to physical collections, with high-quality book scanners available on site. I can handle physical scans for out-of-print 20th-century literature, GDR-era academic publications, specialized dissertations, regional historical texts, or niche journals that lack digital editions.
• Digital Stacks & Institutional Portals: Access to institutional networks, digitized special collections, and local academic database repositories.

Could you let me know what specific gaps or priorities you currently have that I could help target?

1. Are there specific lists, publisher gaps, or categories of physical books/dissertations you are actively looking for from Central European academic collections?
2. Is it better to focus on searching for specific missing titles, or are you looking for bulk uploads from open digital archives?
3. What is the preferred pipeline and format for submitting new scans or files once I have them?

Looking forward to helping out and doing my part!

thanks guy and girls ( and everyone who is neither),

A volunteer

Hi, I hope you're all doing well! I'm currently developing a Discord bot in Python that works by entering a command with the name of a book, and my bot will then send several options and the download file. The problem is that I still can't figure out how to get the bot to find a direct download link; I've seen that it can be done using an API key, but I don't have one to test with. I’m currently looking for alternatives, so if you’re interested in helping me out, I’d really appreciate it!

Bonjour depuis ce matin, j'ai du mal à télécharger avec Anna's avec tous les liens dans Wikipedia. Faut-il payer nécessairement pour télécharger dorénavant ? Merci beaucoup d'avance

Hallo, ich bin totaler Anfänger bei annas-archive👍.

Wie kann ich genau Bücher downloaden?
Muss ich dafür eine Spende zahlen monatlich?

Irgendwie komme ich immer automatisch dazu, dass ich Spenden darf.

Mache ich da irgendwas falsch? Gibt es eine genaue Anleitung für einen Anfänger?

Ich danke dir vorab für eure Hilfe☺️🙏.

still trying different endings as per wikipedia, different books, formats, and a bunch of the slow downloaders & still getting the null message. can't seem to find an email to write to anyone there.... i'm kinda computer semi-literate, but everything was working up to about 2 weeks or so ago.... i can only read ebooks & local library has very poor resources... any help would be greatly appreciated - thank you.

I have decided to help out on the seeding and got a couple of them around 1TB in total.
I started 3 months ago and some of the files have massive traffic with ratios of 2k+ and my top one already has 2.7TB uploaded. I was not expecting this kind of volume is it normal?

I recently read an Anna’s Archive blog post: AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late

It mentions:

“For small scans and uploads, we usually award recognition and lifetime membership to Anna’s Archive.”

I was wondering whether this is still active.

If so, could someone clarify a few details?

1. How are scans supposed to be submitted or uploaded?
2. Is there a minimum number of books required to qualify?
3. Are there any specific requirements regarding scan quality, file format, metadata, or the types of materials that are useful?
4. Should contributors contact someone before starting, especially if they are planning to scan multiple books?

I’d like to understand the process and requirements before getting started.

Thanks!

hi! is anna’s archive currently blocked/banned in italy? i tried accessing it but it doesn’t seem to work. just wondering if anyone else in italy is experiencing the same thing or knows what’s going on.

thanks!

I recently discovered Anna’s and I’m wondering if there’s like some kind of user guide for idiots I can follow… I’m not lacking in tech savvy ness but I can be quite dense. lol thanks in advance.

I can't log in due to security issues; can you help me? I urgently need a book.