Piracy Monitor scans every book in your Book Library. You don't add books to it separately: if a book is in your library, it is scanned.
What gets checked
- Every 6 hours, each of your books is searched on the piracy sites Piracy Monitor watches. At the time of writing these are Anna's Archive, Library Genesis, PDF Drive, Mobilism, Ocean of PDF, Epub.pub and PDF Room.
- When you add a new book to Book Library, it is scanned right away instead of waiting for the next run. Editing a book you already have doesn't trigger an extra scan.
- Once a day, sites that block automated visits are looked up through search-engine listings instead, and YouTube is checked for audiobooks of your titles.
The line under the page title shows when your books were last scanned, for example Auto-scanning every 6 hours · last scanned 2h ago.
How a match is confirmed
The scan doesn't report a search result just because it mentions your title. It opens the listing page and only reports it when your book's title and your author name both appear on it. Each listing is reported once, so you won't get the same address twice.
Get better matches
- Open Book Library from the sidebar.
- Edit each book and make sure the title is the one you publish under.
- Fill in the Author Name field, or choose the right Pen Name if you have saved pen names. The scan uses this name to confirm a listing really is your book.
A book with no author name gives the scan less to go on.
When something is found
New matches are added to your Piracy Monitor list with the status Discovered, and you get an in-app notification titled New piracy match found (or the number of matches, if there are several).
Automatic scans can't see everything. Some sites work hard to block automated checks, so run a Manual Search every so often as well.