Anna’s Blog
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Hi, I’m Anna. I created Anna’s Archive. This is my personal blog, in which I and my teammates write about piracy, digital preservation, and more.
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Backing up Spotify
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20 Dec 2025
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can
We finished the Chinese release
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28 Nov 2025
We have finally finished the Chinese release which we started 2 years ago. We look at all the work involved.
Worldcat editions and holdings release
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11 Sep 2025
Another step towards a TODO list of rare books.
Winners of the $10,000 ISBN visualization bounty
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24 Feb 2025
We got some incredible submissions to the $10,000 ISBN visualization bounty.
Copyright reform is necessary for national security
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31 Jan 2025
Chinese LLMs are trained on my illegal archive of books and papers — the largest in the world. The West needs to overhaul copyright law as a matter of national security.
Visualizing All ISBNs — $10k by 2025-01-31
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15 Dec 2024
This picture represents the largest fully open “list of books” ever assembled in the history of humanity.
The critical window of shadow libraries
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16 Jul 2024
How can we claim to preserve our collections in perpetuity, when they are already approaching 1 PB?
Exclusive access for LLM companies to largest Chinese non-fiction book collection in the world
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4 Nov 2023
Anna’s Archive acquired a unique collection of 7.5 million / 350TB Chinese non-fiction books — larger than Library Genesis. We’re willing to give an LLM company exclusive access, in exchange
1.3B WorldCat scrape
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3 Oct 2023
Anna’s Archive scraped all of WorldCat to make a TODO list of books that need to be preserved.
Anna’s Archive Containers (AAC): standardizing releases from the world’s largest shadow library
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15 Aug 2023
Anna’s Archive has become the largest shadow library in the world, requiring us to standardize our releases.
Anna’s Archive has backed up the world’s largest comics shadow library (95TB) — you can help seed it
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13 May 2023
The largest comic books shadow library in the world had a single point of failure.. until today.
How to run a shadow library: operations at Anna’s Archive
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19 Mar 2023
There is no “AWS for shadow charities”, so how do we run Anna’s Archive?
Anna’s Update: fully open source archive, ElasticSearch, 300GB+ of book covers
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9 Dec 2022
We’ve been working around the clock to provide a good alternative with Anna’s Archive. Here are some of the things we achieved recently.
Putting 5,998,794 books on IPFS
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19 Nov 2022
Putting dozens of terabytes of data on IPFS is no joke.
ISBNdb dump, or How Many Books Are Preserved Forever?
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31 Oct 2022
If we were to properly deduplicate the files from shadow libraries, what percentage of all the books in the world have we preserved?
How to become a pirate archivist
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17 Oct 2022
The first challenge might be a supriring one. It is not a technical problem, or a legal problem. It is a psychological problem.