Ever since a lawsuit in summer 2025 outed Anthropic for destroying millions of print books to train its AI models, book lovers have moved to defend some of the most precious collections from what ...

Dave Marsh took rock 'n' roll seriously. So should we ...

A bookseller estimates that the number of books being destroyed to train AI models is far higher than what’s being reported — ...

The leaves on the trees are changing, shifting from deep shades of emerald to vibrant reds and golds. A light rain dusts the ...

An epic book preservation effort.

Gloria Steinem is being remembered as a feminist leader and icon. But the Chicagoans who interacted with her said she never ...

From a technology standpoint, the digital owner’s manual vs paper manual comparison looks straightforward. Digital ...

A volunteer for Anna's Archive is calling for volunteers to scan and upload books to the shadow library to help preserve human knowledge for the public. The move comes as more AI companies buy, scan, ...

Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be? In early 2026, the owner of James Payne, Books and Prints, based in Brooklyn, began receiving order ...

It has been ten years since Prince died without making a will. The pop superstar left a huge archive of unreleased material ...

I explained my favorite things to ChatGPT and Gemini, then told them to find me free alternatives to the paid options I use for those interests—these were the best finds.