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Finding out AI companies are chewing through - literally, they’re pulping and burning them as they go - millions of books often including 1/1s and old texts that cannot be reprinted

Meanwhile there’s always some dipshit telling me AI is the future and we’ve got to just let companies erase human history and literature so they can train their abomination machines to pretend to think like people because a judge said it’s fine

wageronancap

odessa-edmundson

AI companies are buying and scanning printed books for training data, raising copyright and cultural preservation concerns as rare volumes a

#beautifulpaxiel reads #to read

livdearly

light play with my current read

#beautifulpaxiel reads #book photography #not mine #cool photo op!#other people's reading #shannon chakraborty

bookcub

Another list of books I have read, this time the ones I like with purple covers. I don't include books I didn't like, no need to subject...

how many have you read?

0

1-10

11-20

21-30

31-40

41-54

Voting ended onJul 22

#beautifulpaxiel reads #bookish quizzes #other people's reading #i got 3

foxmulders

it’s crazy how much you can read if you read

#beautifulpaxiel reads #bookish musings #the truth is truthing

storybookprincess

so today a group of 8-9 year old kiddos approaches my desk and goes “hey. we want to go to the downstairs part of the library.”

i’m like “you can totally go downstairs, but just so you know, right now the only thing down there is the genealogy department. that’s like the history of this area and the people who lived here a long time ago.”

i’m expecting them to lose interest, but to my surprise, they go “we want to see the genealogy department!!!!!!”

so i’m like “alright let’s do it!!!!” and lead this group of maybe six elementary school kids across the library make way for ducklings style and downstairs to our extremely not kid friendly genealogy room. our genealogy librarian is super cool, though, and he pulls out a few interesting things for them to look at & they ask a lot of questions and try to find where they live on maps from the 1800s

after about fifteen minutes, their curiosity has been sated, so we go back upstairs and over to the children’s department in that same duckling parade style

truly wish i could render this little scene artistically for you all it was a delight

#beautifulpaxiel reads #libraries #CUTE!!

916gawd-deactivated20190411

Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

#beautifulpaxiel reads #libraries #damn right

calmdowngorgeous

Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

#beautifulpaxiel reads #libraries

friendlyconfessional

How would you describe your book reading habits? Includes audiobooks. NO judgements.

one book at a time, slowly, periodically

one book at a time, veraciously, periodically

one book at a time, constantly

multiple books at a time, constantly

chaotically, sporadically

traditional book reading is not very accessible to me.

I do not enjoy reading books

other/multiple/bald

Voting ended onMar 9

#beautifulpaxiel reads #multiple books at a time constantly #guess i'm in the majority (so far)

uispeccoll

Multi-Mini Monday!

(Okay, posted on a Tuesday, but, whatever)

Let me just start this by saying that the absolute joy that I felt from holding an actual handful of miniature books is unparalleled.

These are dollhouse books! There are 26 books, and the coolest part is that they are all readable! Sometimes when miniature books are made for dollhouses, they are blank books with decorated covers. These books were created by a wide variety of people and publishers, and I think that it shows how wide ranging the world of miniature book creation is!

Each book is unique, and they range in size from 18 to 25 mm. Some of them are gilt, some are illustrated, and some are quite plain. The bookcase itself is 11 x 9 x 4 cm. It is a beautiful wooden case that is decorated with gilt embellishments, orange silk, and golden ribbon trim.

More often than not, the miniatures in our collection are housed individually. It was very cool to see these items in a context that they originally could've been in. You can imagine playing with and reading these books and putting them back on their shelf as one would a standard sized book. It is so fun!

-- Hailee M.

Smith Miniatures Collection Z1033.M6 M56

#beautifulpaxiel reads #book photography #not mine #miniatures #eee these are so CUTE!#and you can actually read them!#how cool