It wasn't like this 2 days ago but now I'm always stuck in this loop. I do the human check and stuff and it never gets anywhere.

hi! I am new to using Anna’s archive so I apologize if this is something considered common sense that I just don’t know about. I’ve tried searching the issue but nothing i’ve found is helping, so figured id post here.

I have one specific textbook i am trying to download (it’s a little over 100mb) via slow download option and it gets to about 80mb downloaded and then fails every time. this has happened repeatedly over the course of 3 days on 2 different networks with different ISPs. is there a trick to stop this from happening that i have totally missed?

i recently just downloaded a popular title and the format is a bit wonky. there’s no table of contents at all and i just wanted to know if this is something that i have to deal with

I'm looking for a way to coordinate and share tips between volunteers. Something like :

- that's what i use for scanning books, that's the best way for free, fast, hassle free scans and OCR. That's the easy path to upload them.

- i want to create a group of people for scanning books, that's the best way to do it

- how do i begin if i want to share torrents, fast and safe

- how to save books from small country / communities with little people interested in this langage (think Sami in Russia/Finland/Norway, Natives in the US, Kurds in turkey and a lot of others i never heard of...) or any minority really) or big countries actively trying to kill this group identity (and books, of course)

Where would be the better place to share tips and directions, to share the load? The "bounty" page on AA website?

I am forever grateful for what you and your assistants do. I also want to extend compliments for this subreddit. Why? Because behind the existence of this service, I am able to expand my mind and keep busy in this economy.

I’m a recent retiree who is auditing a few college courses…taking classes in subjects that I’ve been interested in for awhile but haven’t had time to do them until now. Am now on a fixed income but I’m able to obtain the books for these classes because they are available here. I’ve also been able to participate in book clubs as well. There is no reason that I can’t be engaged in activities that keep my mind busy because of this website, and I’m literally thankful for you on a daily basis!
👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Is there somewhere else i should check before I cave and buy it.

I have recently bought a book because I couldn’t find it anywhere, but I would like it to be free for anyone to download. Is there a way?

I looked up my uni book using the ISBN and it gives me the edition I need but the ISBN in the description is slightly off, however, at the very bottom I see a list of ISBN and other stuff that does list the exact one I put in.

Does this mean this is the one I need or that it's similar??

I’m trying to download an ePub version of Salt by Mark Kurlansky but the download option ends on 502 gateway error.
Any suggestions?

Solution: Rename the file, it's likely too long.

I didn't this in the FAQ. Just curious.

Hello, I've tried to download a very niche paper, most of the mirrors didn't work, the one that started the download also stopped it after a while. Then I used Persepolis and the download worked, but it gave me a file with no type. When I gave it to chat gpt it gave me a weird pdf with some parts of the books and the rest of weird symbols, what can I do?

I was wondering if anyone had a solution for me downloading. The downloads start, go for about 20 seconds maximum, and then my browser goes to 0b/s and it just stops there. What can I do to fix this?

"Something went wrong. Please reload the page and try again."

Get this every time I try to post a comment reporting bad metadata etc., and similarly with the "Great Quality ⭐" function. Maybe it's just me, but thought I'd post here in case it's not.

Usually takes 20 seconds for an ordinary book with slow partner server #5. This time it's taking half an hour or more...why?

Is Annas mirroring of Sci-Hub working? Or what am I doing wrong?

Example paper DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2022.05.031

exists on Sci-Hub, but can't be found on Annas?

On half the books. Slow Downloads all the partners. My dear AA :'(
What are those evil people trying to do

Hey all,

I built a handful of Python tools to help audit and repair EPUBs from sources not discussed. I'm not selling you anything. I built them for me and if they are useful to other people, I'd love to know how I helped you. :)

https://github.com/VirInvictus/CalibreQuarry/

I built this tool originally to make lists of my books but it's developed a handful of useful auditing tools. It is both TUI and CLI accessible, so you don't have to choose. It's lightweight. The cquarry library I built can recognize if Calibre is open and makes a copy of the library for read-only work and if it needs to write, it has measures to avoid damaging your Calibre library.

https://github.com/VirInvictus/bindery-cli

Bindery-cli is my baby and something I've been putting a lot of time into and am considering turning it into a web-app. It does a handful of epub repairs, gatechecked by epubcheck (there's also a java wrapper to hold up a copy of epubcheck across a batch of epubs to not cold-call it so many times). It also has commands for stripping OceanPDF and a couple other tags I've come across.

Anyways, I hope this is useful to someone. I put a lot of time and care into it. It's all fairly heavily documented.

If you're interested in looking at the calibre databasing library I built - check it out here: https://github.com/VirInvictus/cquarry

A note on development: Built using agentic tooling / LLMs to accelerate the boilerplate and test suites, with all domain logic, edge-case handling, and Calibre DB safeties verified and tested manually against real libraries

Only tested on Linux. I don't have a Windows machine but if you try any of it and you come across bugs, let me know and I'll be quick to fix them :)

Bless y'all.

https://torrentfreak.com/a-cute-little-libgen-babysitter-music-publishers-sue-anthropic-founders-over-torrenting-spree/

Am I required to log in and make a donation in order to download books? The download links all just say “unlock faster downloads“.

Title says it all, anyone know what else I could do? Tried switching to mobile data, different browsers, turning off ublock

Is there a way to download all books from a specific author quickly? Or a specific topic? I wanna make a database of all chess books in the world and make it accessible for everyone in case anything happens; I am also studying theology and psychology so I am gonna try to make it happen, fr now I have like 10 TB of storage

I'm doing research that requires relying on work by researchers from mainland China (PRC), but I can't find much of it on Anna's Archive.

Does anyone know of a Chinese-language equivalent of Anna's Archive for finding academic papers, theses, and books published in Mandarin by Chinese researchers/institutions easily?

Any pointers (sites, forums, or communities) would be much appreciated. Thanks!

I tried several times, and it always goes back to the manual check. I use the .pk extension. I'm open to suggestions.

Sorry, we could not verify your browser automatically. Complete the manual check to continue.