Anna's Archive offers $200k to exfiltrate every Google Books scan (software.annas-archive.gl)
Anna's Archive, the shadow library, has posted a $200,000 bounty for a complete copy of Google Books' scans, or a comparable trove, to fold into its permanent open collection.
It sits among smaller asks: $20k for a text version of AA's own library, $5k per million Internet Archive lending PDFs, $3k for Library of Congress MARC data.
The thread argued less about the scans than about who funds six-figure payouts, whether this turns criminal, and a warning that the bounty page links to a shady .li domain.
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