In November 2022, the clearnet domains of the website were seized by the U.S. The Z-Library project and its activities may be considered illegal in some jurisdictions. The organization describes itself as 'the world's largest e-book library', as well as 'the world's largest scientific articles store', and operates as a non-profit organization sustained by donations. As of January 1, 2023, Z-Library reported to have more than 11,828,754 books and 84,837,643 articles. Z-Library is particularly popular in emerging economies and among academics. Īccording to the Alexa Traffic Rank service, Z-Library was ranked as the 8,182nd most active website in October 2021. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis, from which most of its books originate.

Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books.

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