I love where the headline cuts of:

knowledge is permanent - ly monopolized on private servers

Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanently monopolized on private servers’

Not only that, of course, but easily edited. It's a "mandala effect" generator. AKA modern gaslighting. They name the thing, point to legitimate examples, then abuse our new "understanding" to cover their crimes. 1984 indeed.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia

Getting rid of physical copies of books so we can be monthly subscription slaves, disgusting

Fucking scanning books without destroying them, the philistines! /s

I guess the next step is picking specific people to memorize specific books and pass that knowledge down to an assistant/acolyte who will keep the memories alive. Rinse and repeat. Fahrenheit 451 anybody?

Remember, USA and it's AI companies did that.

I agree about not destroying books, but Anna's archive is ok with providing all of their info to llms

https://web.archive.org/web/20260305153357/https://annas-archive.gd/blog/llms-txt.html

If you read the blog post, they don't provide help or guidance for regular bookworms on how to scan. No information about what they expect.

Also, flatbed scanning a whole book takes many hours. It's one page at a time, line up each page, press the book flat and scan, for hundreds of pages.

You'd likely need to buy, or have access to a book scanner. Which is fine, there are cheap models, but who knows if that would work for them? They don't say. It doesn't seem like they're expecting help from you or me.

I own some rare books but no book scanner. What should I do?

These AI companies are just being Nazis, books on pyres…again.

Any reputable orgs I can donate to for assisting the cause? I just don't feel I have the means otherwise to make a dent in the buying and preservation.

They're destroying everything like locusts

Anyone know any good book scanners was looking around and not sure what i should get.

So, my question is, of all these books being scanned and then destroyed, aren't there many more copies of these books? And BTW, knowledge isn't permanent. It can be lost.

Fahrenheit 451 ass

the AI ran out of Reddit slop material to scan, because reddit has been purging alot of content/accounts even suspected of spamming, so they go for physical books now.

With modern phones having a document scan option with our phone cameras, is it possible we can scan and combine into a PDF file?

I am going to test it myself, see how easy it is, and find a way to ensure anyone can follow with low cognitive load, but hopefully it’s as easy as I think to do.

The sad part, is to do so would require a slow tedious task for books with hundreds of pages. It would be nice to see a large group tackle chunks at a time to the point we eventually have groups dedicated to genres and scouring to find them to preserve them.