Anna's Archive, a meta-search engine for book piracy sources and shadow libraries, has announced a significant milestone. It has been secretly scraping WorldCat, the world's largest book metadata database, to further its mission of preserving all available books in the world, even if that means being at odds with copyright law. The dataset obtained from WorldCat includes 1.3 billion unique IDs, and Anna's Archive believes this data will help in its goal to map out all the books in the world and create a list of books that still need preservation. This move has not gone unnoticed, and the site has over 12 million monthly visits. However, it also faces legal risks and has stated its mission is worth the potential consequences.

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