If we are talking only about books not other types of media then Anna's Archive is larger. One of their sources is even internet archive.

This email is from 2012, Epstein was registered as a sex offender since 2008. She approached him for a Luxury Porn company.

It is important because AI is an Oligopoly, you can't locally host a model like Claude. They also claim they are ethical and avoid harm. His wife is an Advisor for Anthropic.

https://www.anthropic.com/constitution

Lots of people associated with Epstein appeared in News articles. Simply put no one even knew she was Dario Amodei's wife that is why she is only appearing now in the news.

Don't forget that when you use LLMs you are helping these types of people:

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/claude-dario-amodei-wife-anthropic-e1eeda7d

Cami Clark—who started what she called a ‘revolutionary porn company’ where she sought investment from Jeffrey Epstein—keeps a low profile but is a key adviser to the AI chief. Its coming IPO could top trillions.

As soon as they go public it will be lets maximise shareholder value. It is horrifying how much power these private companies have these days and how evil they have become. Morals basically don't exist with them and their are no consequences. This is why I don't like AI though it does improve programming by leaps that even people who don't know how to code can make a fully working application. If the trend continues and people depend on AI for programming these companies will have big influence over the world, look at what happened with the international court, they depended too much on US technology.

There needs to be regulations on AI and people still need to learn programming even if you depend on AI for most task. We can't give these companies our ability to program too.

My mistake I meant Oligopoly.

I also wanted to know what the rare books are and this is what I Found:

https://finance.biggo.com/news/37a2899b-5f1a-4571-9bb5-1156c0ac4605

I also heard that they are also scanning old outdated medical books.

So are not really aiming for rare, they are just gathering at random and getting their hands on any old book they can find. Some rare books might or might not be in the books they scan.

They are a former pirate site, they went legal around 2008:

On January 8, Crunchyroll will stop accepting user-submitted videos and other content from individuals, and only host videos approved by copyright holders. Gonzo and Toei Animation are two other major Japanese copyright holders of anime that decided to stream on Crunchyroll. ANN interviewed Crunchyroll founder Vu Nguyen in March.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-11-17/tv-tokyo-to-also-stream-naruto-through-crunchyroll

Yep, if this happens there is no benefit to android.

Sign in to read, no thank you:

https://archive.ph/TFqAx

Many of the communities I am in are pissed and these aren't even tech people, this is even worse than what reddit did.The thing that most people online hate is age verification, who thought this was a good idea, reminds me of when Tumblr decided to ban porn same level of stupidity.

The whole concept of locked phones should be illegal, pretty sure it is illegal in many countries.

First age verification, mastercard and visa controlling what people purchase, and now this, there isn't any good news lately.

Don't forget that you can't use VPN now, use the web version on mobile, and most accounts gets banned as soon as they are created by the automod.

Source: https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-releases-additional-epstein-estate-documents/

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hTNH5woIRio578onLGElkTWofUSWRoH_?usp=sharing

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/9bq6uj0pnycpa4gxqiuzs/ABBA-BoYUAT7627MBeLiVYg?rlkey=3s6ggcjihou9nt8srsn2qt1n7&st=4aejaath&dl=0

Mozilla does it again, adding useless crap.

Wait until Google locks the bootloader.

This is why there should be laws regarding RAM prices. A couple of companies buying the entire supply shouldn't be allowed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634559

I think only the UK does this now, the EU is in planning phase. Even the countries that have dictatorship don't do age verification for Wikipedia. The UK seems to be going through a phase similar to when books were banned because of content and considering that many people read online books this will definitely affect digital book readers.