[joe5150]

Yeah, they're also going to get sued out of existence by publishers if they try this.

https://x.com/markhardware/status/1894829887304933626

[msephton]

Yeah I responded to that the other day about a recipe app that tried something similar. It allowed people to scan the barcode of recipe books they owned to add the contained recipes into the app. They were busted.

[philomath_mn]

Wonder how Readwise is managing what they do -- really hope they don't get shut down.

[joe5150]

I'm not familiar with Readwise but it appears they only store highlights? Publishers probably don't like that but don't care enough to do anything about it, whereas "uploading copies of books to the services to do AI stuff with them" is the subject of many ongoing lawsuits right now, so they'll be very interested if this takes off.

[philomath_mn]

Right, I just don't know where the dividing line would be. What % of a book is acceptable?

[msephton]

No idea. But here's an article on the recipe book barcode scanner app (2016): https://www.superbcrew.com/scan-recipes-allows-you-to-turn-b...