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Vel­lumproof cre­ates tam­per-evi­dent records of man­u­script drafts with cryp­to­graph­ic seals and time­stamp­ing to prove human author­ship and writ­ing pro­gres­sion. Writ­ers upload files as they work; each ver­sion is chained to the pre­vi­ous one, pre­vent­ing back­dat­ing or alter­ation. The ser­vice gen­er­ates ver­i­fi­able proof pages for pub­lish­ers and con­tests while keep­ing man­u­scripts pri­vate and nev­er using them to train AI mod­els.

AI com­pa­nies are bulk-buy­ing phys­i­cal antique books, using indus­tri­al equip­ment to scan and destroy them for train­ing data, exploit­ing legal loop­holes around first-sale doc­trine and fair use while keep­ing pur­chas­es secret to avoid neg­a­tive pub­lic­i­ty.

The Atlantic arti­cle exam­ines the ​“oral­i­ty the­o­ry of every­thing,” which argues that human com­mu­ni­ca­tion is revert­ing from lit­er­ate cul­ture to oral char­ac­ter­is­tics, with pro­found impli­ca­tions for how we think, orga­nize soci­ety, and process infor­ma­tion. Draw­ing on mid-20^th-cen­tu­ry media the­o­rists like Wal­ter Ong and Mar­shall McLuhan, it explores how the rise of social media and dig­i­tal con­ver­sa­tion mir­rors pre-lit­er­ate com­mu­ni­ca­tion pat­terns and reshapes human con­scious­ness.

Kin­dling is a Rust replace­ment for Ama­zon’s dep­re­cat­ed kindle­gen. It builds Kin­dle .mobi files from EPUB/OPF, up to 7,000x faster.

This page details Stephen King’s unfin­ished eBook, ​“The Plant” (2000). It’s about a sin­is­ter plant offer­ing a pub­lish­ing com­pa­ny suc­cess for human sac­ri­fices, dis­trib­uted via hon­or sys­tem.

The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mir­rors Sci-Hub, Library Gen­e­sis, Z‑Library, and more.

Free and lib­er­at­ed ebooks, care­ful­ly pro­duced for the true book lover. Down­load free ebooks with pro­fes­sion­al-qual­i­ty for­mat­ting and typog­ra­phy, in for­mats com­pat­i­ble with your eread­er.