Anna's Archive

“It already has many copies of the same books and no way to tell which ones are erroneous or incomplete.”

“Very often, I found that it looks excellent on IA, but terrible, borderline unreadable, in the AA copy.”

“It's great that there are organizations making it ~free for anyone in the world to obtain information instantly.”

“it's morally questionable (at minimum) to charge for things that, by law, aren't yours in the first place.”

“It lives but as a much shadier alter egos that does not support all that original libgen supported.”

“One side wants to freely share knowledge with all of humanity, the other wants to restrict it to make a buck. I know who I support.”

“I deeply admire the people who are obsessed with their passions and strive to build things that will lay the foundations for others.”

“Really one of the dreams of the internet realised, the ability to access all knowledge at your fingertips.”

“This IMO makes them more resilient against that sort of thing, and also means they can actually do their job.”

“I'm all love for Anna's archive, but still, I find it rich that they now find themselves in position to make strong ethical claims.”

“supporting Anna's archive is one of the best things you could do for humanity long term”

“This has unfortunately led to search results for a particular book containing multiple versions of that book”

“If it were not for Anna's Archive and Z-Library, I would've never been able to read the books that shaped who I am today”

“Anna's Archive estimates they have preserved 16% of the world's books, all available to download with an internet connection.”

“Anna's Archive, Libgen, and archive.org provide enough bandwidth that your problem becomes even knowing what titles to download.”

“AA and others like libgen and zlib have done a great job spreading knowledge in the world”

“The service it provides is invaluable - free and DRM-free access to millions of titles in the world.”

“If I didn't have a resource like AA I would likely read less and in the end spend less on books.”

“They basically have just copied other shadow libraries archives and are much more aggressive about monetizing than the long-standing alternatives.”

“A lousy library that cares more about its "business" or operational model than about the books it offers”

“has a well established record of selling first class access to pirated material to AI companies”

“Ironic that AA seems to claim some sense of ownership over the data they scraped from other people and re-hosted”

“Made by average non-billionaire humans sharing knowledge in the largest free libraries”

“Their style suggests they have other goals than freedom of information and reminds of the super rich wikimedia foundation always campaigning for more money.”

“Anna's has several orders of magnitude more books, and includes research publications and more, ah, contemporary materials to boot.”

“I've decided that "Anna's" plus used physical books plus printed new books are the right combination.”

“this organization has done the most to enable human collaboration and thus enable a precursor to peace and progress and prosperity”

“they're basically where virtually all of the old archive.org material landed, and nobody else is mirroring it”

“I now use Anna's archive to download a book and decide if I will pay for it later after reading at least some of it.”

“for various reasons I don't quite like Anna's Archive as much; the UI is imo also more confusing”

“So now I download from Anna's archive and if it's as good as I expected based on ratings then I pay for it”

“wouldn't kill them to add some fucking details to the main page rather than making you dig for it”

“Ironic those doing the most for making information open and accessible are the criminals.”

“I think it's a bit amazing and a bit embarrassing that western culture is being kept out of a kind of dark ages”

“Those guys should get a prize for resilience alone, they put many government run services to shame.”

“They collect other open collections and beg for paid memberships to access pirated material.”

“They're not 'a' non-profit, and there's simply no way to know that they're not taking in loads of money and pocketing it.”

“I find it a little hard to believe given how agresive they are at marketing the paid version.”

“pirating everything on annas archive et. al. cannot be beat by any commercial offering”

“so worth it! I enjoy reading history books that you will not find in a public library.”