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What the US should prioritize is opportunity, education, corporate regulation, housing affordability, justice and dealing with corruption.

Gee, then they wouldn't need the surveillance state.

It is so much worse now. Look at the former career employees that abandoned ship. Or the current head prosecutor.

It is so much worse.

This is really true. Pick a blog, video, or what ever lawyer you want making comment on the state of the federal justice system right now. It's a mess and a shit show.

Skeptical that the books being destroyed are rare.

Wasn't a thing originally, they added it later. But it's habit, I never leave lithium battery devices plugged in. I have a laptop from 2011 that still holds over 90 percent storage.

Yeah it really is. So was Amazon bulk printing pulp.

Its almost like maybe amazon wasn't the place to get random books.

Of course not. Wasn't my point.

Well duh. Also real authors are flooding Amazon with crap too. Have people not been paying attention?

How many batteries are failing? My LCD battery is still working great. I never leave it plugged in, managing battery health helps a lot.

Can they please give me an example of a rare book?

I keep thinking there might be ones that are considered somewhat rare, but that is so relative. Its not like the real rare boom market isn't there. I was looking at a couple books to buy that are considered rare, although they are public domain. They aren't cheap maybe 2 to 3 hundred each, but I do have a choice of nearly 5 different printings to choose from, meaning if I buy one they dont go away entirely.

Also, who are the booksellers? Does this mean they can start pushing prices up for these purchases? Surely if AI companies are buying all the rare books they would begin to price them accordingly.

Also, for the rare books, are people trying to buy them to preserve them?