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I love losing myself in a good book, and I’m not the only one. Finding great gifts for book lovers isn’t just about testing for the best e-reader (which we have!) or rounding up all the accessories ...

Japan's used-book market is seeing bulk orders of rare texts, with 50+ tons shipped to the U.S. amid unconfirmed AI training speculation.

Scanning documents and photos sometimes seems pretty old-school, like sending a fax. But it’s surprising how often you need a scanner. Maybe your bank needs a signature, you have to scan W-2s and pay ...

Most accessibility technology for reading assumes you’ll eventually need a screen somewhere in the chain, even if it’s just to select a file. This Raspberry Pi book scanner throws that assumption out ...

For the past year or so, booksellers have suspected that AI firms are buying up huge lots of rare books, then destroying them after scanning them to train AI. But this was hard to prove until now, as ...

Max Barry taps into the humor of Snow Crash with Jennifer Government, which focuses on cyberpunk’s prediction that corporations would become far more powerful than nation states. In a world where ...

If you can truly appreciate an old book—and maybe even marvel at how its fragile, yellowing pages contain some of the earliest ways that people tried to make sense of the world around them—then ...

A review of internal documents at Anthropic, one of the most prominent artificial intelligence companies, revealed the corporation bought millions of books in bulk, with a focus on "less common" and ...

The CZUR ET Max book and document scanner impressed in testing with its high-resolution images of documents, fast data processing, and ease of use. The work surface is well-lit, and document ...

Hybrid work and digital archiving have pushed document scanners to evolve beyond flatbed glass and slow capture speeds. The CZUR ET Max is a professional overhead scanner designed to digitize bound ...

Dedicated scanners are now something of a niche need. Most people who own a scanner only ended up with one because it was attached to the home office printer they bought to print return labels. Since ...