These are all the torrents currently managed and released by Anna’s Archive. For more information, see “Our projects” on the Datasets page. For Library Genesis and Sci-Hub torrents, the Libgen.li torrents page maintains an overview.

These torrents are not meant for downloading individual books. They are meant for long-term preservation.

Torrents with “aac” in the filename use the Anna’s Archive Containers format. Torrents that are crossed out have been superseded by newer torrents, for example because newer metadata has become available. Some torrents that have messages in their filename are “adopted torrents”, which is a perk of our top tier “Amazing Archivist” membership.

You can help out enormously by seeding torrents that are low on seeders. If everyone who reads this chips in, we can preserve these collections forever. This is the current breakdown:

Status Torrents Size Seeders
🔴 54 154.0TB <4
🟡 183 92.5TB 4–10
🟢 111 17.2TB >10

IMPORTANT: If you seed large amounts of our collection (50TB or more), please contact us at AnnaArchivist@proton.me so we can let you know when we deprecate any large torrents.

  • Adam@doomscroll.n8e.devEnglish
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    8 months ago

    It seems the majority of the torrents with poor seeder count are in the 1.5TB+ range. I just simply don’t have the storage for that. Most everything in the 0-300GB range is pretty well covered.

      • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Yes. When downloading the torrent, go to the files list for that torrent and un-check boxes. Resist the urge to leave only the first files in the list(as most people will do this leaving few-if-anyone seeding the rest), **and try instead to grab files from the middle or end, or just be random about it.

        When the torrent finishes downloading the files you’ve selected, it will automatically seed those portions of the torrent which you have downloaded.

        EDIT: I just remembered, some torrent programs will actually show you the seed ratio per file in the torrent. There are reasons hardly anyone is (sincerely) trying to reinvent this wheel.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Agreed. I’d like to share a bit of disk storage but I only have 2 TB and I need that for my own consumption.
      Give us smaller torrents (e.g. 50GB parts) instead.

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Bruh, this is a terrible way to share this. Why not torrents of the raw material in predefined categories that won’t change? Like “1984 - Sci-Fi - English - A-N”, “1984 - Sci-Fi - English - O-Z”, “1990 - Biology”, “2012 - Physics”. Then people would actually even download this to use it themselves, instead of some archive that has to be extracted and will take a multitude of the space again.

    The hell am I going to do with a 300GB archive file that I cannot even look into? I might as well be storing an encrypted blob 300GB large or just reducing the size of my partition by 300GB.

    It’s great that people want to preserve human knowledge, but there surely are better ways to do this.