r/Annas_Archive Aug 19 '25

Reminder: Anna's Archive has alternative domains, they are currently still up and working as expected.

1.4k Upvotes

You can view a currently working URL on the Anna's Archive Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive

If you don't already know why the main domain has been going down: https://torrentfreak.com/publishing-giants-escalate-war-on-shadow-libraries-with-broad-cloudflare-subpoena/

Please consider donating to Anna's Archive, it is crucial that information remains free and accessible to all!


r/Annas_Archive Jul 11 '24

Guide to bypass censorship of Anna's Archive

273 Upvotes

Hi everyone, because Anna's Archive is blocked in some countries, I've put together a guide on how to bypass censorship.

Before you begin, research local laws to find out what you are and are not allowed to do. I won't force you to comply with the law if you don't want to, but please think carefully about what you are doing.

There are three easy and popular ways to circumvent censorship. The options are changing your DNS servers, using Tor, or using a VPN. I'll explain each option. Additionally, some bad countries (such as Russia or China) will try to block you from downloading Tor and VPNs, so you may need some extra help in this case. If so, please reply to the post and explain the situation.

The first and easiest option is to change your DNS servers to 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8, which is sufficient to access the Archive in most countries, but not all. The way to do this depends on your operating system so you may need to look it up, but https://www.howtogeek.com/786911/how-to-change-your-dns-server-on-windows-10/ explains how to do it on Windows.

If that still doesn't work, try clearing your browser cache and DNS cache. If even after purging cache the issue persists, you should try a VPN or Tor. I'll explain the pros and cons of each option.

A VPN routes web traffic through its own servers, which disguises your IP address. If you trust your VPN company to deliver on their promises, this also means your internet traffic won’t be logged. It also protects your website from censorship since traffic is routed through their servers. However, VPNs generally apply across your entire device, although there are some browser-only VPNs. This can be an inconvenience because if your VPN server is located in a different country, the website may display content in the wrong language, and some websites ban VPNs because of abuse by trolls and spammers, so you may need to disable the VPN when you're not on Anna's Archive.

My favorite free VPN is ProtonVPN, which you can download from https://protonvpn.com. If you want to buy a VPN for better reliability, I recommend Mulvad, which you can buy at https://mulvad.net/en. Once you get a VPN, activate it and visit Anna's Archive (you can find the latest Anna's Archive domain on Wikipedia, I cant link it here because Reddit might take it down) and the censorship will be removed. If the site is still being censored, clear your browser cache and make sure a VPN is enabled. If you still have issues, please reply to the post and I will try my best to resolve your issue.

Now the next option is Tor. You can get it from https://torproject.org. It is a browser that routes your traffic through three random servers. You don't have to trust Tor because the Tor team can't change servers to track or censor users even if they wanted to because they don't have control over the servers. Tor also has built-in functionality to bypass censorship of itself. However, Tor is blocked on some websites, it can make browsing a lot slower, and some governments that allow VPNs still ban Tor.

If you want to use Tor, download it from their website, open it, and connect to Tor. If your country attempts to block Tor, you will need to enable a Tor bridge, but it will tell you how to do this when you launch your browser. Then after connecting, go to the Anna's Archive website on Tor to download the books you need.

If anyone has any ideas on how to improve this post, please let me know. Thank you!


r/Annas_Archive 9h ago

How can I convert PDF to EPUB properly?

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I found the content that I want however it's in PDF format and actually they put each page as a page screenshot not as text. It's scanned copy. In case if anyone can assist me about converting this to EPUB please help me in advance. Or idk from another source etc. but ig requesting is not allowed (idk if that counts as a request?)


r/Annas_Archive 4h ago

Unable to download

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I am unable to download papers I really need for my research. Does anyone have any tips on how to fix it? A blank screen of the paper opens up but I cannot see the text. D: Are there any alternative website?


r/Annas_Archive 2d ago

The search index has been refreshed

267 Upvotes

New books are available. Enjoy!


r/Annas_Archive 1d ago

Getting "Link expired or invalid. Visit annas-archive."org", ."li", or ."se" to find this file.

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Whats happening here? It is happening on both Brave and Safari with fresh links.


r/Annas_Archive 2d ago

Load alert

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Hi everyone. Is there a way to set up an alert on Anna’s when they add a book by an author I can’t find? I check daily and want to avoid having to search every day.
Thanks


r/Annas_Archive 3d ago

How to make internets archive scans readable on kindle?

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For some reason the PDF scans from the internet archive are working extremely slow and too dark to read, is there a way to make it a "normal" pdf ?


r/Annas_Archive 4d ago

Thank You!

251 Upvotes

I just wanna say thank you to AA for all that you are and all that you do to make reading accessible and to keep literature alive and on the interwebs. I hope there is a AA for audiobooks one day!


r/Annas_Archive 5d ago

Question for embargo torrents

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When will those embargo torrents can be downloaded?


r/Annas_Archive 6d ago

Download links won't work ( 10 days)

1 Upvotes

I get a message that the link has expired it no longer exists

I'm accessing .gd domain (also tried .org) on Vivaldi for Android via VPN cloaking to Paris server

This is a setup I've used frequently in the past.

Any ideas?


r/Annas_Archive 9d ago

Thanks Anna's Archive

1.2k Upvotes

I just wanted to thanks Anna's Archive, it's an impressive source of books.. It's just breathtaking!


r/Annas_Archive 9d ago

Is AA down?

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I tried to find two books with several dls. Each one is only one page saying: link expired or invalid. It’s telling me to visit the .li or .se to find this file. What’s going on?


r/Annas_Archive 8d ago

I often have problems with files types like .mobi, .epub, in fact everyhing less .pdf. why?

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When I try to open these kind of file navegator open an unlimited amount of tabs, and the way I can stop it is by delete file.


r/Annas_Archive 9d ago

Graphic Novel Formatting Issues

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Hey everyone! I am sorry if this is a topic that has already been covered. I am new to ebooks and ereaders, but I recently bought a kobo clara for my 7 year old son who reads graphic novels like crazy. Before I give it to him, I am trying to find some to kind of figure out how this works. I am trying to get him either Warrior Cats graphic novels or the old Warriors manga. I tried a couple different ones and converted them to epub and put them on the reader and the silly pages are either so big you only see a quarter of the page or so small they only take up a third of the reader... What gives? What am I doing wrong? Please help!


r/Annas_Archive 10d ago

Books that link to z-lib aren't working, I think they switched domains

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Some books I need downloaded only have ones that link directly to z lib given the conditions that it needs to be English and PDF, example: Error control coding Costello.


r/Annas_Archive 9d ago

automatic downloads of anna books via vps

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I'm building an app that has a functionality to download books you search from.

I'm connecting it not only to Gutenberg, but also to Anna's archive for public domain books only, as there are more there. Gutenbergs works (search is very slow, does anybody know why?)
Is there a way to scrape Anna books in a very lowlevel number, like 10 books a day?
Like an auto search and downloader on my vps.
I tried pupeteer for searchw hich is working. But the cloudflare Turnstile for slow downloads are not letting it download.

thanks for any help, as i said i dont want to scrap in a big way. 10 books a day automatied downloading would be enough


r/Annas_Archive 10d ago

Nepali PDF

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If there's any way to get Nepali book PDF ? any books in English and Nepali?

Friends from Nepal.. if you can


r/Annas_Archive 12d ago

My Onyx ebook reader freezes, glitches and becomes unresponsive after I load epubs i got from anna's archive. could this be a file corruption issue?

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Basicaaly, I got this new Boox Go 7, and it works fine but when I load epubs I got from anna's archive, it kind of freezes up and glitches with random things happening without any input.

I suspect the epubs, but I am new to all of this, so I am not sure if the epubs I downloaded are safe. How do you make sure the epubs are valid? is there any post-processing that needs to be done? I usually just load the downloaded epubs directly. Is that an issue?


r/Annas_Archive 13d ago

Made a free web UI to make seeding Anna's Archive easier

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Hey everyone,

Anna's Archive only stays alive because volunteers seed its torrents, so I wanted to make contributing as painless as possible. I built a small open-source web UI on top of cparthiv/annas-torrents and I'm sharing it here in case it's useful to anyone.

The original tool is CLI-only: you run a Python script, tell it how many TB to target, and it drops .torrent files into a folder that you then have to load into qBittorrent yourself. It works, but it's opaque; once things are seeding you have no easy view of what you're actually contributing.

This wraps that same selection logic in a browser dashboard:

- Set a target size (e.g. 0.05 TB = 50 GB), click once, and it starts fetching the prioritized torrent list and seeding, no separate client to install and wire up (libtorrent is embedded).

- Live metrics: coverage % of the total archive you're preserving, disk used vs. remaining, live up/down rates, and swarm health (seeders/leechers per torrent).

- A read-only /view page so you can share your live contribution without exposing your control panel, plus a donate-to-Anna's-Archive button.

- Ships as a single Docker image / Compose service.

I build it to run on my NAS and wanted to share with you.

Repo: https://github.com/worph/annas-torrents-webui


r/Annas_Archive 12d ago

Issue with one file

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I've been downloading a book from every website I know. It seems that the files are all the same, so my kindle will not accept any of them.

Any idea what I can do from here?


r/Annas_Archive 13d ago

My book has weird symbols in it, is it a curropted file?

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I wanted to read House of leaves but when I downloaded the file it didnt have any text and only had weird symbols on it and it also had Chinese characters on it wich confused me.. I used a phone and I tried to read it on my phone's pdf and text reader. Do i have to download it on a computer for it to work?


r/Annas_Archive 15d ago

Z-library torrents have been updating, latest as of today (2026/07/07)

48 Upvotes

Haven't been integrated into the main site/search yet it seems, but hype!


r/Annas_Archive 15d ago

Amazon gift vouchers

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Sent a gift voucher to Anna's Archive about a week ago. Yesterday, got notification of refund. Very odd, never had an issue before sending gift vouchers. Wondering if maybe the website has been deserted by the owners.


r/Annas_Archive 16d ago

Can't seem to download anything on Firefox mobile

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Wanted to dl something and everything is fine, but when I click on the link it opens and doesn't finish loading and eventually times out, tried a mobile download manager , DNS change, different domains, and VPN, but it still has the same issue

Anything I might have missed?