Dear #readers, it seems that we’ve been spotted 👀📚. #booksky #bookshop

Alex Churchill@alexchurchill.bsky.social · yesterday

Yup. Tis I.

@tatorific.bsky.social this is a good posting about the book Klara and The Sun ☀️

Public attention to AI companies’ use of books intensifies as court records revealed Anthropic had purchased millions of physical books, removed their bindings, scanned them & discarded them in what documents called “Project Panama” #booksky #archives #library fortune.com/2026/07/31/d...

This Dutch bookseller thought a request for 3,000 copies was 'spam or phishing.' Instead, AI companies are scanning and destroying books to train AI | Fortune

"I was shocked!" Pieter de Vries of Haarlem told Fortune. He said several other Dutch antiquarian booksellers received the same request.

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Companies are destroying #books after they are scanned and used to train AI chatbots. #booksky #archives #library decrypt.co/374646/ai-bo...

AI Book Burning? Companies Are Destroying Millions of Books to Feed Chatbots - Decrypt

AI developers are quietly buying physical books by the millions, slicing them apart, and scanning every page into AI training datasets.

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"Cultivated" meat is a deceptive name for lab grown meat. Coming to a grocery store near you.

I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange? MAAN, A4 S1 #ShakespeareSunday

“Summer's lease hath all too short a date." Sonnet 18 #ShakespeareSunday

Beach Dance Party

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6/ Suggested hashtags to join on a Sunday #SeventiesSunday #SundayStreetMusic #ScienceSunday #SelfPortraitSunday #FolkloreSunday #SpookySunday #ShakespeareSunday #SmallPoemSunday #SenryūSunday (or #SenryuSunday) 6 of 11 #SundayHashtags

He would have lived many a fair year though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night. As You Like It #ShakespeareSunday

Thou art a summer bird. Henry IV, Part 2 (4.3) #ShakespeareSunday

" This is the flower that smiles on every one," - Love's Labour's Lost (A5, S2) #ShakespeareSunday

[Dance] - Much Ado about Nothing (A5, S4) #ShakespeareSunday

“Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service” The Tempest: Act 3; Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday

I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange? Much Ado About Nothing IV, 1 #ShakespeareSunday

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by @shakescenery.bsky.social - The Summer of Love!

“O, how shall summer’s honey breath hold out” Sonnet 65 #ShakespeareSunday

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A proper man as one shall see in a summer’s day. Midsummer Night’s Dream (1.3) #ShakespeareSunday

“I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that’s a feeling disputation; But I will never be a truant, love, Till I have learned thy language; for thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penned, Sung by a fair queen in a summer’s bower” HenryIV P1, A3S1 #ShakespeareSunday

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“So likely an ambassador of love. A day in April never came so sweet, To show how costly summer was at hand” TMOV A1S9 #ShakespeareSunday

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“I am a spirit of no common rate. The summer still doth tend upon my state, And I do love thee. Therefore go with me. I’ll give thee fairies to attend on thee, And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep” AMSND A3S1 #ShakespeareSunday

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I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange? Much Ado About Nothing Act IV Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #TheSummerOfLove

GIF of Han Solo saying to Princess Leia,”So You'd Miss Me.”

Alt: GIF of Han Solo saying to Princess Leia,”So You'd Miss Me.”

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Tomorrow's #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by @shakescenery.bsky.social - The Summer of Love!

This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by @shakescenery.bsky.social - The Summer of Love!

Book returned to library after 150 years - with a £14,600 late fee 📖 “Antiquities of Athens” (1858) was returned to a public library in Kiama, Australia last week after a local man discovered the text inside a tea crate, bricked into a disused fireplace. #BookchatWeekly #BookSky

Book returned to library after 150 years - with a £14,600 late fee

The 1858 copy of Antiquities of Athens was returned after being found in a sealed fireplace during recent home renovations

independent.co.uk

California is going to be hit with some extreme temperatures over the next couple weeks. As always, remember to keep hydrated, limit outdoor activity, and check on your neighbors. Find your nearest cooling center and other resources ☀️➡️ www.ready.ca.gov

Pinned to my calendar with the note "Emotionally devastate yourself today!" Seriously, the first time I read this story in middle school, I had to keep my head down at my desk for a few minutes so no one could see the tears in my eyes.

Austengoals@austengoals.bsky.social · 5d ago

Dear #readers, mark your calendars! August 4th is coming and what better day to read Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” it’s only 5 pages, attached below. Published in 1950, the story announces "Today is August 4, 2026” 👀📚 #booksky #library www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_...

Dear #readers, mark your calendars! August 4th is coming and what better day to read Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” it’s only 5 pages, attached below. Published in 1950, the story announces "Today is August 4, 2026” 👀📚 #booksky #library www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_...

Same Zane, same 😁 currently a 7 but wishing for to be 4 more often 😂

Zane@moochie6us.bsky.social · 5d ago

Generally 7; wishing it were 4...

Here are the links to petitions and information on the closure of The National Archives in San Francisco and Chicago. #library #booksky #archives www.saveournationalarchives.org

The National #Archives closing its San Francisco Area facility along with another in Chicago. According to Save OUR National Archives (SONA) it has learned from sources that the move of records from these facilities could begin as soon as August 2026 #library #booksky www.kqed.org/news/1208890...

Exclusive: The Bay Area’s National Archives Office Is Closing. Researchers Are Worried | KQED

The Bay Area collection includes original records from landmark birthright citizenship case United States v. Wong Kim Ark, and inmate records from Alcatraz. Federal officials didn’t provide details ab...

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