In the filings, Anthropic states, as reported by the Washington Post: “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world. We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”

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    11 hours ago

    I swore I wouldn’t buy another physical book, but I may break it just to be able to read this one.

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        8 hours ago

        We’re progressing backwards to Victorian times where books are luxury items.

        I have to say, there are some advantages to using an light e-ink reader vs a massive book (reading Sanderson hardcovers in bed is basically planking but on your back).

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        9 hours ago

        I recently had to move with my physical book collection and swore I wouldn’t do it again. I converted it all to ebook now. I’m down to about a dozen physical books, not counting comics and TPBs.