An AirTag in a rare book led to an Amazon book scanning warehouse in Las Vegas

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A bookseller hid an AirTag in a rare book to track its journey, revealing it ended up at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas where books are scanned and destroyed. This confirms suspicions that Amazon buys bulk books to scan them, possibly for AI-related purposes. The warehouse operation, called VGT3, involves unbinding books to scan pages quickly, focusing on ISBNs rather than titles.

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