Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚

Born to library, forced to data. opinions are mine alone.

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

I am a librarian who almost never tweets about libraries and I am on a mission to prove that librarians are increibly normal people.

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

WAKING UP FROM MY TWITTER COMA IN A RAGE WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

Back from the dead to remind everyone that libraries do have what you want in stock either on-site or via inter-library loan. Nothing for anyone to 'take back'.

Visit your local library, or just do a hold online and pick up later (or eBook it) if you hate being in a library.

[Logan Hall @loganclarkhall]

We need to take bookstores and libraries back from the libs. This is a matter of national security

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

Hi hello, is this site still a massive mess?

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

@Stay__Objective @GiovanniRadtke @TheChrony We have audits that should explain how money's being spent:

https://t.co/J1hErW8pLP

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

Considering how everything is right now, it's best for me to move any activity over to Bluesky anyway. Just reiterating where to find me for the 1-3 people interested.

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

https://t.co/BB0yhBx7QE

For anyone interested

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

@StckedLibrarian I appreciate you very much but is this a /s or /srs tweet?

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

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[leven @levenness]

reading shouldn't be a privilege. download that book illegally if you can't afford it.

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

@Right2Work "Big Labor" yeah ok lol go push that in a state that falls for that terminology.

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

I get the feeling this site is falling apart...

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

@ManuelSConde @GovEvers This is just normal Wisconsinite behavior, you'll get used to it if you hang around us.

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

@ProJared @Quest64Official Yeah they got both those last I saw. Not sure if they retired the Scrambler or not yet.

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

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[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Tom Kenny when asked by someone on the spectrum if SpongeBob is autistic:

“Yes, of course he is! That’s his superpower, the same way it’s your superpower.”

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

There is no shame in crying to this book, doubly so when you know the context in which it was written.

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

@GenePark Well, technically, Green Bay but in my defense I'm the only one who pays attention to the Welcome to Ashwaubenon sign.

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

@GenePark One at the Dave and Buster's in Ashwaubenon, WI last I checked.

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

Essential reading to remind everyone, thank you.

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

MAY I SUGGEST A LOCATION?

[nay 🍉 @nayxreads]

maybe i should’ve chosen a cheaper hobby bc being a book lover is not for the broke 😭

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

@WilliamBibbiani Yeah that's why Hollywood Video was better

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

@RogueArtemis I look away for an hour and you trend, proud of you.

[Dylan Rummel, MLIS👨‍🏫📖📚 @dylrum]

@ettingermentum Plateaus are just a conspiracy theory line always go up