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AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: ai companies, archive, books

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Ukrainian Publishers Call For Support After Russian Attacks Destroy 10 Million Books (slashdot.org)

2026-08-20 | tags: ukrainian publishers, russian attacks, book destruction

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Report: Amazon Is Buying Rare Books in Bulk and Destroying Them to Train AI — A Hidden AirTag Proved It (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-19 | by Jon Small | tags: amazon, airtag, vgt3

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Hidden AirTag appears to confirm suspicions about illicit AI book scanning (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-19 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: airtag, amazon, ai training

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Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is 'all' the Vegas warehouse does (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Jake Roach | tags: book, books, google

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AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: amazon, airtag, ai training

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Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: amazon, airtag, ai training

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Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by Amanda Silberling | tags: amazon, rare books, ai training

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Tracking Rare Books Leads to an Amazon AI Training Facility (slashdot.org)

2026-08-17 | tags: amazon, ai training, vgt3

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Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-17 | by Amanda Silberling | tags: amazon, rare books, ai training

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Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-17 | by Amanda Silberling | tags: amazon, rare books, ai training

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Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI (futurism.com)

2026-08-17 | by Frank Landymore | tags: amazon, vgt3, ai models

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AI companies are buying used books by the thousands. Some may be destroyed for training (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: ai companies, used bookstores, model training

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by Aug | tags: amazon, ai training, vgt3

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Used Booksellers Are Racking Up Huge Sales. They’re Not Thrilled About the Likely Reason (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: used books, booksellers, sales

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Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI? (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-15 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: secondhand books, barter books, canadian company

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No space for bookshelf speakers? The Victrola Soundstage sits neatly under my turntable (zdnet.com)

2026-08-15 | by Jada Jones | tags: victrola, soundstage, wave

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Xteink’s tiny e-readers are getting access to free books through Libby (theverge.com)

2026-08-15 | by Andrew Liszewski | tags: xteink, libby, crosspoint reader

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Seven books I keep close because I love them (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: roget's thesaurus, harper row, john wilkins

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Einstein the musician, AI prophets and more: Books in brief (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-14 | by Robinson | tags: procyon lotor, rasputin, marlene zuk

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Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: ai firms, google books, book scanning

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My favorite nonfiction animal books that make you go holy shit (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Jeff Campbell | tags: seahorse, animal behavior, graphic novel

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Independent bookstores in Europe receive suspicious orders for thousands of books, prompting fears they'll be destroyed to train AI — sellers believe acquisitions are part of AI tech companies’ push to get more data (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Jowi Morales | tags: amazon, ai training, independent bookstores

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A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | by Mon Aug - | tags: bookstores, europe, mass orders

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Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Aug. 9, #1155 (cnet.com)

2026-08-08 | by Gael Cooper | tags: answers, books, connections

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Xteink X4 Pro Pocket E-Reader Review (2026): Fun but Limited (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Nena Farrell | tags: books, read, readers

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Why Gen Z is suddenly carrying ‘analog bags’ everywhere—and what they put inside them (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: analog, analog bags, bags

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Google Maps Adds Agentic Feature That Orders Food and Books Hotels for You (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: able, able share, agents

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Parents Horrified as Boomer Mawmaws Gift Children Blatant AI Slop Picture Books (futurism.com)

2026-08-04 | by Frank Landymore | tags: ai-generated children’s books, wired, imagitime

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Company Offering Printed Books To Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage (slashdot.org)

2026-08-03 | tags: isbndb, ai training, printed books