You may have heard about one of the coolest sites on the web, Z-Library being seized, but fret not ebook lovers! There’s still a way to access this popular ebook repository with Tor. This article will explain in-detail the steps needed to access the site and keep on reading.

## Getting Started With Tor Browser

Explaining all the use-cases and technology behind Tor is a story for another article, but for our purposes, it allows for us to continue accessing Z-library through its official onion service.

To do this, you will have to start by installing Tor Browser to your computer. Once this is done, launch it, and you will see something like this:

Initial connection setup from Tor Browser, with two buttons labelled from left-to-right “Configure Connection…” and “Connect”

After clicking `Connect`, and waiting (Tor is kinda slow, even on faster internet connections so be patient!), you will then be able to use the darknet (congrats!)

Tor Browser Homepage, which during the time the screenshot was taken shows a promotion for the “Resistance, Change, Freedom” donation drive

## Getting onto the Onion Service

Now that you are done with that, you can then use the onion service descriptor to access the site. An onion service descriptor is similar to a website domain, although instead of `.com`, `.net`, `.org` or similar, it has a `.onion` top-level domain at the end. These `.onion` addresses cannot be connected to at all from a normal web browser like Firefox, which is why earlier you had to download and install Tor Browser. At this point, you just need to paste the following address into the address bar in Tor Browser:

    http://loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhembyd.onion/

After waiting some more (again, Tor is kinda slow so be patient!)… You will be greeted with a login screen. If you have existing credentials, you can sign in, or otherwise sign up for an account. (If you sign up for a new account, make sure to check your e-mail for a verification link and select `Load Normally` when the NoScript dialog appears.)

Z-Library Single Sign In page

## You’re in!

Then, after clicking `Continue` and being redirected… Voilà! You now can browse and download books on Z-Library freely!

Z-Library Front Page, featuring a search bar and a variety of featured popular books

## Author’s Note

Thanks for reading this all the way to the end! I have noticed a lot of people talking about Z-Library being gone, and nobody was talking about the Onion Service.