20260915 This is my appeal to readers everywhere: you should take a knife to your books. (And no, not in the sense that the destructive AI-scanners do.) Like apparently everybody else, my book club recently picked out Lonesome Dove. I’m … Read more
annas-archive.gl/blog, 2026-08-05 A guest post by Anna’s Archive volunteer “u” (translated from Chinese). TL;DR: AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive … Read more
I’ve read roughly a book a week for a few years, and I can tell you it’s doable. I didn’t always read this much. When I started, I read fewer than ten volumes per year, but making it a goal … Read more
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This culture of borrowing, Vänttinen explains, is rooted in deep-seated pragmatism that stretches back to Finland’s rural past, when people routinely shared farming machinery. “Today, many people in cities live in small homes, and they might need a sewing machine … Read more
I noticed that I seem to, subconsciously, gravitate towards books published on or before 2022, and somewhat discount books published after, especially from authors I haven’t heard of. A part of me tells me I shouldn’t feel this. I like … Read more
A curated list of every major book on CUDA programming — beginner to advanced, C++/Python, architecture, optimization, and the latest 2024–2026 releases.Focused on practical, high-quality resources for NVIDIA GPU parallel computing. Last updated: May 2026Contributions welcome! See Contributing. Beginner / … Read more
If you wanted Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird back when it first released in the summer of 1960, a hardcover copy would have set you back $3.95. J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring came out a few years … Read more
We asked our founders & GPs for underdog recommendations If you want to beat experts as an outsider, turns out you can just read 25 books. From our October 16th interview with Keith Rabois To get a better sense of … Read more
Louise is Publisher Emerita of Penguin Random House Canada. She has worked as the editor and publisher in Canada of writers such as Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Karen Armstrong, Naomi Klein, and Yann Martel.