every book ever written will need to be acquired and scanned by AI companies. Many old and rare books live with the old bookstores.

I thought the industry for physical books would have died - but it seems to have built up a recent sprint, at least until everything humanity has ever recorded is encoded in the training set.

It has to be a labor of love, although the Catskills gets a good year round tourist crowd from NYC, where there are probably more book collectors than anywhere else. The antiquarian crowd.