Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I wish I had a book scanner, I'd be digitizing every book on my shelf. I already have a good chunk of my forgotten realms stuff digitally (don't ask where I got it) but there's still a ton more I need, and I've finally gotten my spouse to read and their collection is getting almost as big as my own. There's probably over 1,000 books between all my immediate family members.

i might have a couple, and i do have a regular scanner. any good tips to make a decent file?

Gotta feed the machine.

I mean, these companies are speed-running atrocity after atrocity toward the end of humanity. There is no way this AI bubble ends without mass graves.. not if we let them continue to decide how things go.

How does one find the official Anna's? I found a few that were shady af and were very obviously not real. Tor and i2p addresses are fine, too.

There is a glaringly obvious issue with this article that I see a lot of people in the comments seem to have missed:

Only one copy of any given book exists The pretense to this entire thing is that AI companies are destroying the books both because of the process used AND to prevent competitors from accessing the book. There is more than ONE copy of that book. If you buy a book, that doesn't prevent me from also buying that book. You can not like AI for a number of reasons, but this is just stupid.

NOTE: If destroying the book actually prevented competitors from accessing it, that means that all of these AI companies are only going out on the weekends to used bookstores looking for good deals on second hand books.