On: AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

[xvilka]

It would be nice if we have some "tracking" e.g. 30% of all known books are scanned. So far all information I searched in the Internet about the progress has been patchy. It's also impossible to understand if exact book was ever digitized or not.

[Cider9986 → xvilka]

Anna's archive estimates that they have preserved 16% of the world's books.

https://annas-archive.gl/faq