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How to scan a book?
https://archive.org/details/eliza-digitizing-book_202107
That’s how to do it the right way.
Damn that's a lot of waiting. There was another device that just MRI'd books where they were, but no, 'AI' companies need to rip books apart to scan them. FU.
No less frustrating but I believe destruction is a required part of the process so the AI companies can say they still only have one "copy" of the book.
Oh like they care.
No, it's far more crass: destroying the book makes scanning easier and faster.
It’s worse. They want to train their models on data their competitors cannot access. So they buy rare books, scan them in, and destroy the source material.
Yah, exclusive content, or just rats watching the ship go down while burning books. FU AI bros playing the largest scam in history...
You take pictures of it with your phone. It is as simple as that.
I want to see you do that for a 500page book. Now multiply by however many books. I've got over 1000 books in my home library.
They have cradles that hold them so a camera can photograph them. You then save the book afterwards