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A 404 Media investigation tracked a rare book to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas where workers cut spines off books to scan them
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A 404 Media investigation tracked a rare book to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas where workers cut spines off books to scan them
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Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.
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AIPROPX has consolidated 5 reports from 5 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Amazon is buying rare books and destroying them to train its AI models.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — Other and US.
The earliest report in this entry came from Ars Technica (Aug 17, 2026, 18:13 UTC); the most recent came from Quartz (Aug 18, 2026, 14:20 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 3 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “books and destroying them”.
3 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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