In the filings, Anthropic states, as reported by the Washington Post: “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world. We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”

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    17 hours ago

    Write a book where the spine is a required piece of the story for its understanding or completion.

    Kind of like how House of Leaves is best enjoyed with the actual book.

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      13 hours ago

      I read one once where being able to slightly see through the pages was a key part of the plot

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          It was called 世界でいちばん透きとおった物語 by Hikaru Sugi, but I don’t think there’s an English translation because this kind of gimmick works a lot better in scripts where all characters are the same size, and a translation that ends up with a comparable arrangement of those letters would be a major pain too.

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            13 hours ago

            A slow-burn read by learning Japanese first. This one will take me while.

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              12 hours ago

              Fuck yeah, I can already reliably recognise like ⅓ of the hiragana set…if there’s a multiple choice pick.

              I’m taking a course, but if you want to just self study www.kanadojo.com is pretty good, and if you get anki there’s a load of free resources to practice listening and reading. Anki is free on android and pc, but costs a bit on iOS. Www.Ankiweb.net

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      17 hours ago

      I swore I wouldn’t buy another physical book, but I may break it just to be able to read this one.

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          We’re progressing backwards to Victorian times where books are luxury items.

          I have to say, there are some advantages to using an light e-ink reader vs a massive book (reading Sanderson hardcovers in bed is basically planking but on your back).

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          15 hours ago

          I recently had to move with my physical book collection and swore I wouldn’t do it again. I converted it all to ebook now. I’m down to about a dozen physical books, not counting comics and TPBs.