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https://mindmatters.ai/2026/08/its-time-to-buy-old-books-before-ai-destroys-them/
1984 should have been entitled 2026.
Even as I pick up a book of short stories, or a novel – even what used to be called “pulp fiction” – of the mid-20th century in hardback, with nice rough paper; let alone a 19th or 18th century classic with engravings lovingly reproduced in the 1960s, I now see them being sliced and shredded, leaving us digital screen-bound for everything – and I feel sick.
I’m reading now: a simple little 1950s hardback of Cornell Woolrich mystery stories, and this nauseating thought hits me, spoiling my pleasure. I can only say, “This is my book, and they can’t have it before I’m no more, at least.” But then, under capitalism, any man-made disaster can strike, and everything can be lost.
How to enjoy anything? How could I have known, even only thirty years ago, that books, my one go-to that had always been constant, would be threatened?
US seriously considering use of nuclear weapons in Europe – Sputnik.
The 2,000 year old religion of John the Baptist still exists, and its devotees have always hated Christianity.
Even in ancient times the ignorance of the Jews and Christians, their ignorance of nature and natural processes, must have been glaring to the Hellenist Romans and Greeks.
And Adam’s first wife was Lilith, so he’d been going a long time without defecation, since he was already with Eve by the time he got intestines.
” If the Old Testament is fake, the narrative of Jesus, the gospel, the narrative of the apostles, and Revelation is also mythology, and Paul was just a liar.”
It’s mythology anyway. Is there a name for “fake mythology”😀
Was “Paul” a liar, or was he deranged? If Jesus was to him, as some have claimed, a celestial being and not an historical one, then Paul only believed in a celestial Jesus. He does not use the word born, in Jesus’ case, but made, and this distinction is literally maintained by translators up until current ones. Historicity was not created until the Gospel writers, after Paul.
In the Adam and Eve apocrypha, written by Christians later, God forgot to give them digestive tracts. So when they ate the fruit they couldn’t digest or excrete it and were in agony. God puts them to sleep and installs intestines in them.
I have a compilation of these Jewish Christian stories of the first and second centuries CE.Yahweh was the god of storms, just one of the pantheon. He was subject to El, whose wife he stole. Now, was that wife (Asherah) his own mother (incest), or did El have a former wife?
This departure from the thread is my fault. Can we veer the debate on book quality back to the “Paper” thread?
Thanks, and fair enough. This isn’t the thread for this, but I’ll just reply.
I have ordered books in good faith and ended up receiving photocopied sheets glued together, badly photocopied illustrations barely visible, curling covers, no pagination, text alternating with blank pages, mispellings, unreadable grammar and orthography, etc.
One Mark Twain had GOOD QUALITY BOOK printed on the cover like a bad joke. It was thinner than a copy of The Beano but marketed as a book.
A p.o.d. on the English Civil War had a cover scene from the Napoleonic Wars. Several supposed books on De Sade had Rousseau on the cover! The blurbs on the back are illiterate.
If this is the future for print, I’ll stay out of it.
I now check the date of a book before I order. Prior to the year 2000 if I can get one.And I avoid anything that looks like it’s print on demand. I do research first into the publisher. I’m furious when I end up with a shoddy excuse for a book.
Do you have another option than Amazon?
I use Betterworld Books, Awesome Books, Ebay, and independents if I can.
