Dear readers,

We’re happy to announce that our Fall Fundraising Campaign 2025 has successfully concluded. We want to sincerely thank everyone who supported our library - your contributions and encouragement mean a lot to us. Our goal remains to provide access to literature and promote education for people around the world. Thanks to your support, we will keep improving and expanding this project with dedication and care.

Today we want to share with you our latest update of Desktop application (version 3.0.0) which is now available for Windows and Linux (Debian / Ubuntu, Fedora and Any Linux). Please note that there is currently no new version of MacOS available, but we are working on one and hope to announce it in the near future.

Dear Z-Librarians,

As always, for the two weeks, we are holding a Fall Fundraising Campaign! We want to thank everyone who has stayed with us and supported us with comments, feedback, and input in our development. Our team works daily to improve the library and make it better for everyone, and we promise to keep going. If you'd like to support us, please go to Donate page!

As a reminder, donations made between September 15th and October 1st will allow you unlimited downloads (999 daily downloads).

During the year, hundreds of thousands of new books have been added to the library this year and we've made some significant changes and updates that we want to remind you of. Some of them were highlighted in our blog and in Twitter, while others were not, so we decided to bring them all together here:

My Profile

Last year, we introduced a completely new page with information that was never previously indicated in the profile. At the start of Z-library, we were simply a place where people could download books. However, with time and development, we realized the need for a social aspect to the profile, and so we came up with the idea to create one.

My profile initially contained only bio, interests, booklists, and other user information. To help people find like-minded individuals or discover new interesting books, we made interests clickable. This means that if another person shares your interests, you can check their booklists.

We continue to work on developing the platform and plan to add more features and capabilities in the future. Therefore, we took the next step by adding My Library...

As you know, Z-Library is one of the largest book communities in the world, which is used by millions of people. Daily, we work hard to make it useful not only to readers but to authors as well, which is why we are launching the ability to advertise books on our platform, to promote them.

Whether you are an experienced author or just starting out, this tool can be really useful. Publishers, authors, and retailers can increase their books' visibility and popularity through our direct advertising services. We are confident that this innovation will be a valuable addition for all members of the literary community.

To get started, you need to create an ad here, and after it passes manual moderation, it will be displayed on some pages of the site. When creating an ad, you can upload the book cover, as well as set up geotargeting and the desired number of impressions.

As you know, Z-Library is one of the largest book communities in the world, which is used by millions of people. Daily, we work hard to make it useful not only to readers but to authors as well, which is why we are launching the ability to advertise books on our platform, to promote them.

Whether you are an experienced author or just starting out, this tool can be really useful. Publishers, authors, and retailers can use our direct advertising to increase awareness of their books and boost sales. We are confident that this innovation will be a valuable addition for all members of the literary community.

Dear Z-Librarians,

Z-Library’s mission is to make education accessible to everyone, no matter where they live or what their financial situation is. That’s why we offer free online access to millions of publications in many languages, which are used daily by students, teachers, and staff at educational institutions.

In addition to digital resources, we are working to improve access to physical books. Through our Litera Library project, users can request the books they need or donate their own by sending them to one of many Litera Points—special exchange locations around the world. This project already operates in dozens of countries and is helping to break down barriers to knowledge sharing.

The Problem of Insufficient Educational Materials

Many educational institutions, especially in developing countries, struggle to provide enough learning materials for their students. Books can be expensive, institutional budgets are often limited, and sometimes it’s just impossible to get up-to-date publications. In some places, a single textbook can cost 50–80% of a day’s wage, putting it out of reach for most students. This creates inequality in education and makes it hard for people to get the knowledge they need.

To help address this issue, we’re launching a new targeted support program for educational institutions that lack essential educational materials. Every month, we’ll help schools, colleges, universities, and other officially registered organizations get the materials they need—either by purchasing them directly or by providing funds for their acquisition. To participate, just fill out our support request form.

Dear Z-Librarians,

As a tradition, we are holding our Spring Fundraising Campaign! Your enthusiastic support allows us to work even more diligently. Every contribution you make is not just money for us, but also a sign of your belief in our project! We want to remind you that any donation made from March 15th till April 1st will allow you to get unlimited downloads for 31 days.

Now, we'd like to tell you about some significant changes we've made to the website in recent months. These updates are designed to improve your experience on the platform.

Enhanced Search Capabilities

Previously, finding specific articles could be cumbersome. To improve this, we now made it possible for you to search for articles through curated booklists and your uploaded content. This streamlined approach makes it easier to discover related literature relevant to your needs.

Dear readers,

BLACK FRIDAY IS HERE!

Are you ready to enjoy the gifts we have prepared for you?

This Black Friday will be legendary because we have done something most of you have been asking for - a Dark Mode is now available in the browser version. This new feature will enhance your experience on the website by making it more comfortable. As a way of showing our gratitude to our users who support us through their donations, which help us keep going, all Premium users will have early access to Dark Mode. But don't worry, from the beginning of December, Dark Mode will be available to ALL users without any restrictions.

Dear Z-Library Community, today we are glad to share some great news with you 😌

Downloads for Unregistered Users

After 2 years, we have restored the ability for guests to download 5 books. Please note that the download limits are based on your IP address. It's common for internet providers to use shared IPs for multiple devices, so the download limit may also be shared between those devices. If this is the case, the download limit may already have been spent for the IP address you're using

We'd like to point out that this function not only allows everyone to download books without registering or logging in, but also helps to distinguish our website from scam sites

Dear Z-Library Community,

We are happy to announce that our Fall Fundraising Campaign 2024 has successfully finished. We would like to express our gratitude to everyone who contributed to our library - your support motivates us to continue working on the project during these difficult times. Our aim is to provide access to literature and help educate people around the world. With your help and support, we will continue to work hard on this project!

Separated buttons to Read and Download

As we are trying to make the library more convenient, we have decided to divide the read and download buttons. So, from now on, you do not need to look for hidden buttons as they are all visible now. Have you noticed the change?

Hello, Z-Library Community!

Today, we are thrilled to share some exciting news from our library. Our team is constantly working hard to improve the website, applications, and features. Let us take you through our latest updates!

New version of Desktop App

The newest version of our Desktop App is now available for both Windows and Linux (for MacOS it will be available later). It has undergone a comprehensive redesign and includes numerous new features.

Menu

The location of the menu has changed, and now it can be found on the left side of the screen. The menu contains all the main items (Search, Booklists, Favorites etc.)

Dear Z-Library Community,

We are thrilled to share that our Spring Fundraising 2024 campaign has reached its successful conclusion, and we've managed to gather all the necessary funds for our project development. Your generous support enables us to persist in refining Z-Library, and for this, we offer our deepest thanks! We extend our heartfelt appreciation to everyone who has made a contribution to our library. In these challenging times, your support serves as our inspiration to continue working hard on this project.

Meet new user profile

Meanwhile, we've completely revamped user profiles on our website. We've added a social touch, so now you can personalize your profile with an avatar and background customization. Plus, you can share a link to your profile, allowing other users to view it. While currently, your profile only displays your booklists and comments, we have plans to expand its features in the future. Have you uploaded your avatar yet?

Today we are forced to share some sad news - yesterday many of our domains were seized again. We should highlight that the majority of the seized domains were not mirrors of the Z-Library website. Instead, they were separate sub-projects, containing only books in rare languages of the world, and their blocking is perplexing. For instance, these domains included books in Tamil, Mongolian, Catalan, Urdu, Pashto, and other languages:

afrikaans-books.org
bengali-books.org
urdu-books.org
marathi-books.org

Starting off with a huge THANK YOU to everyone who supported our project during the fall fundraising drive! Your support is invaluable, and your donations help us continue our work and keep you happy with new features.

InterLibrary: add your paper books

A month ago we announced the Global Paper Book Library (InterLibrary) and now we have 130 Z-Points in 40 countries! You can check out the full list and find the nearest Z-Point here. Our goal is to build a global library of paper books accessible to people around the world.

Today, we are taking another step towards this goal and opening the possibility for all users to register their paper books in our system. For this purpose, we've developed a special interface where you can register your paper books that you are willing to share. You'll need your mobile phone to take a photo of the book cover, scan the barcode, and fill in basic info (in case our system can't do it automatically). So all your books will be listed in our system.

⚠️ Please bear in mind, this is not a fully completed feature, but a step towards facilitating book exchanges between users. We're planning to introduce a mechanism for exchanging books and user contacts soon. Despite this, you can already register your books in the InterLibrary system.

We're excited to announce the launch of a project we've been hinting about in our previous blog post: our book exchange initiative. This project has grown beyond our initial concept of a simple book exchange and has evolved into a global library of paper books. Our ultimate goal is to connect readers worldwide and make literature accessible to everyone, regardless of location or financial constraints.

The project will be launched in several stages:
In the current (first) stage, we start gathering books over the world. If you have books that you no longer need or simply wish to share your literary collection, please send them to our designated literary hubs, known as Z-Points. There, we carefully store books, digitize (if the laws of a particular country allow), and send them to users and educational institutions in need.

Hello,

As you may have noticed, our library has been through significant updates in the last few months. It's been a time of growth and evolution, as we've worked tirelessly to improve library accessibility and service stability. However, behind the scenes, we're still under tremendous pressure from the FBI.

As you may know, in November 2022, two alleged participants in the project were arrested in Argentina at the request of the United States and still remain imprisoned for almost a year. Their detention occurred without compliance with legal norms and with numerous procedural violations. For example, a court sanction for arrest has been issued after the arrest. This situation has greatly affected the operation and functionality of the Z-Library.

Today, we are calling on you, our community, to join us in our fight for the Z-Library project. This project represents more than just a platform; it's a gateway to knowledge for people all over the world.

We are launching a petition https://z-library.se/support-us to restore access to Z-Library and stop the illegal criminal prosecution. Your signature can make a world of difference.

Z-Library desktop launcher

Our team continues working on improving the accessibility to our library, and we now want to introduce the alpha version of our desktop launcher for Windows, macOS and Linux. This launcher will save you the trouble of searching for a working website link, as it will handle everything for you. Additionally, the application can operate over the TOR network, so you will always be able to use the library while maintaining your privacy. As a small bonus, all users accessing the library through the desktop application will get a one-month premium membership and doubled daily download limit (the period starts from the first app launch)!

Please note that since this is an alpha version, the application may not run on your computer. If you encounter any issues, feel free to contact our support team support@z-lib.se, and we will assist you.

⚠️ Upon the first launch of the application, you may encounter a warning message regarding an unverified developer. This is expected, as we don't yet have a Developer account on these platforms.

Dear Z-Library community,

We are excited to share with you some news from Z-Library. As always, our team is working hard to improve our service and make it more user-friendly and convenient. In this blog post, we will introduce you to several new features and improvements that we have recently added to our platform. So, let's dive in and explore what's new at Z-Library!

Z-Access Page

We have created a special page called Z-Access that provides users with all possible access points to our library, including personal domains, Android app, Telegram bot, magic email, and other useful links. You can find it in the menu or on your profile page.

It's no secret that the most active users of our library are students and staff from various universities. We wanted to learn more about this and have collected statistics showing which educational institutions use Z-Library and how they use it. How did we separate one university user from another? For data collection and analysis, we decided to rely on the domain zone where users' email addresses are located. For example, an email like "*@utoronto.ca" allows us to assume with a high degree of confidence that this is an employee or student of the University of Toronto.

During the collection of statistics, we discovered that Z-Library is currently used by more than 600,000 students and teachers from over 30,000 educational institutions (universities, colleges, and schools) worldwide! These values, and the numbers in the graphs below are a low estimate since not all users give their university email addresses when registering. However, the obtained statistics should be relatively accurate. Also, due to the large number of users from China, we decided to combine the largest universities of this country into one line.

So, let's start with the general statistics. In which countries do university students and staff use Z-Library most actively? (We highlighted Taiwan due to the significant number of our users located there. There are no political reasons involved).

Hello library community,

We have great news for you – Z-Library is back on the Clearnet again! To access it, follow this link singlelogin.me and use your regular login credentials.

After logging into your account, you will be redirected to your personal domain. Please keep your personal domain private! Don’t disclose your personal domain and don’t share the link to your domain, as it is protected with your own password and cannot be accessed by other users.

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. We are already working on making the login page accessible to all users.

You can also join our official Telegram channel to follow the latest news, announcements, and actual domains information.

In case you can’t access your personal domain, please provide a screenshot/screencast with the issue to 1libsupp@1lib.to, and we will assist you. Thank you so much for staying with Z-Library!

Dear Z-Library community,

As you may know, in November 2022, as ordered by the US secret service, almost all the public domains of the library were blocked, and the inner infrastructure of the project suffered some substantial damage, too. Today, we are still under unprecedented pressure. At the moment, Z-Library is going through the hardest times in all the 14 years of its existence. The library might work with interruptions, and we ask you to be patient. Be sure - we are doing everything possible to ensure free access to knowledge for millions of people across the globe, and we expect you to help us with that and to support us.

But despite all the difficulties, the library continues to function and develop! We have recently introduced several important features - the new recommendations section, comments to booklists, the new web-site menu, and also now you can thank the users who made the books appear online. Now, let us speak about each of those and our plans for 2023.

As many of you know, on November 3rd most of our domains were seized and some our servers were suspended by the United States Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation. In addition, on November 16 the United States Department of Justice published the indictment against two citizens of Russia, Anton and Valeria. They are accused of criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud and money laundering to operate the Z-Library.

We refrain commenting on the alleged Anton and Valeria involvement in the Z-Library project and the charges against them. We are very sorry they are arrested. We also regret that some authors have suffered because of Z-Library and ask for their forgiveness. We do our best to respond to all complaints about files hosted in our library if it violates author's rights.

Z-Library is a library that is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Like our readers, Zlibrary strives to become better, and that's why we've made a number of upgrades.

We want our users to focus on reading, not on technical things. Therefore, we have increased the size of files that can be sent, the limit is now 45 MB and performance of full-text search became higher—search results appear faster. We increased displayed books limit from 500 to 1000 books for premium users only.

As you know, Amazon will stop supporting MOBI files for sending to Kindle at the end of the month. It will be replaced by EPUB. Until that happens, we recommend using MOBI, as EPUB is still a work in progress. While the choice is yours, you can also send EPUB files to Kindle, Zlibrary already has this feature.