Recently, users of Z Library have been notified by the website through email that their domains are back online for use. According to the email received, "After a long time [...] Z-Library is accessible on the web again."

Late last year, on November 4, the domain names of Z-Library—the website which claimed to be the world's largest ebook library—were seized by the US Department of Justice after Booktokers began sharing the link publicly, specifically for Colleen Hoover's last novel, It Starts With Us (Atria Books, 2022).

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Z Library states in the email that "You can enter the library using your login credentials", disclosing new links, via which users will be redirected to their personal domains. Alternatively, they can also login to their previous accounts to get access from the provided.

For evident legal issues, the links, usernames and passwords have been asked to be kept private. However, the question still remains as to whether we will find an alternative to platforms as comprehensive and as rich as Z Library. So the website closing down does pose some significant problems for its users, despite the moral and ethical implications of piracy involved.

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As Sara Kabir, a regular user, asks in an earlier piece on Z Library: "For readers in Bangladesh specifically, where access to books isn't always readily available, Z-Library getting taken down comes as a blow."

However, now that the website is back online, it remains to be seen whether the authorities take it down again.