The library has faced several legal issues in countries like the UK, the U.S., and India, but the legality of its operation is an ongoing debate albeit its extensive use in many domains across the world. Z-Library was actually started as a mirror of Library Genesis (Libgen), which is the primary source of most of its eBooks. Z-Library (formerly BookFinder and often simply written as z-lib) is a shadow library project created to encourage file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic publications, and general-interest books.

Written by: Elijah Ugoh Last updated on February 18, 2023

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After being shut down, the US government arrested, and charged, two Russians, claiming they were the site’s operators. We are already working on making the login page accessible to all users,' the blog post reads.īefore seizure by the US Department of Justice in November 2022, Z-Library was one of the most popular pirate sites on the internet, offering some 12 million books and 84 million articles, the media reported. 'In case the singlelogin login page isn't available to you, please use TOR/I2P to log in to your account, copy the URL of your personal domain and use it in your regular browser. In that case, Z-Library said, users should go for Tor or I2P.

However, it would seem that singlelogin is still the single point of failure and could bring the whole thing down, should it be seized. > These are the best VPN services right now (opens in new tab)

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