It is surprising how many books in these archives are romance novels. Just poking around randomly showed almost all (fiction!) is romance. If the reason for this Chinese dump has to do with LLM training sets, that puts the AI Sycophancy into a new light for me. AI chatbots are essential romance novel partners.

The slowest website ever (the dl speeds reminded me of the early 2000s) but so worth it! I enjoy reading history books that you will not find in a public library.

You know, it wouldn't kill them to add some fucking details to the main page rather than making you dig for it. The TL;DR:

  WTF is a Anna's Archive: Hi, I’m Anna. I created Anna’s Archive, the world’s largest shadow library. This is my personal blog, in which I and my teammates write about piracy, digital preservation, and more.

  WTF this post is about: Exclusive access for LLM companies to largest Chinese non-fiction book collection in the world.