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Libraries Buy and Cut Books to Preserve Knowledge. AI Companies Do it For Profit and Competition
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August 19, 2026
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1:23Now PlayingToday on the podcast, 404 Media's Emanuel Maiberg gets into how he discovered a purchase of rare books was going to an Amazon facility to be scanned and cut up after we placed a tracking device in one of the books. He talks about how this practice of cutting books, which libraries have done for a while to preserve rare books and make space for new books, is completely different when it comes to AI companies looking for training material. Watch now
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