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Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton, one 50-ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destruction — multitude of suspicious bulk buys thought to end up
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ThorrJo lemmy.sdf.org ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-06-13
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Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/japanese-used-bookstores-see-5x-sales-surge-as-books-are-being-bought-by-the-ton-one-50-ton-order-sent-to-the-us-for-ai-scanning-and-destruction-multitude-of-suspicious-bulk-buys-thought-to-end-up-in-foreign-ai-scan-and-shred-facilities
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Dr. Wesker lemmy.sdf.org wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-06-10
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Used media stores are one of the things that makes Japan the best dang place on earth for lovers and collectors of dying and forgotten physical media. Never anywhere else on earth have I encountered stores like theirs, where so many old gems have been stored with such care for decades, typically in pristine condition, and highly affordable.

I could literally fucking riot over this.
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