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A subreddit to thoughtfully discuss books of all kinds – novels, poetry, fiction, non-fiction – as well as all things relating to them, from the publishing industry to literary criticism.

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World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent (www.tomshardware.com)

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As AI tech companies increasingly buy and destroy books to feed to their AI models, Anna's Archive is calling for volunteers to help preserve them for the public record

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