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It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use

Amazon’s VGT3 team in a Las Vegas warehouse receives large shipments of rare books, removes their bindings to scan them rapidly, and discards the physical copies, a process revealed by a 404 Media investigation that tracked a single title to the facility. The operation contrasts with the Internet Archive’s page-by-page, non-destructive digitization approach, which preserves both content and the books’ physical integrity.