Inside one company’s secret plan to ‘destructively scan every book in the world’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology @technology-WashPost
Lots of people destructively scan their #books to digitize their library or to get a discounted (or otherwise non-existent) digital version from the many used copies that sell for pennies.
Many #libraries let lenders use their stack cutters and scanners.
There are non-destructive scanning methods for #rareBooks, of course.
