This article might give some clues about the types of books: https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/technology/arid-41897035.html

This is what I believe they are doing:

https://finance.biggo.com/news/37a2899b-5f1a-4571-9bb5-1156c0ac4605

_**The owner of MW Books in Ireland also reports that since May, the shop has been receiving large orders with wildly varied content. “The orders are piecemeal, presumably machine-driven, and there’s very little thematic rhyme or reason to them: everything from 18th-century African agricultural implements to biographies of 1950s racing drivers,” he says. “Personally, I don’t think we have the right to dictate what customers do with books after they buy them, but the selection is certainly intriguing.”

Another anonymous UK used bookseller reveals that some seemingly random orders, possibly from different buyers, all end up being shipped to the same address. He provided a delivery postcode used by different buyers, which corresponds to a cluster of freight warehouses near London Heathrow Airport. The bookseller says that since January, he has received orders covering 6,000 books from similar buyers, amounting to thousands of pounds. These buyers are willing to pay “top prices” and haven’t asked for discounts even when purchasing large quantities at once. “That doesn’t happen very often. It’s disruptive to the used book trade.”**_

They are probably buying books that don’t have any digital copies since they are perfect for training AI. As for why they are using destructive scanning, I believe it is because either destructive is cheaper and faster or they don’t want the competition to have access to the training data. Since these are not easy to find books, Amazon sells books, any book they try to obtain is probably extremely hard to find anywhere.

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/windows-11-ddr3-ram-prices-2026

https://www.techpowerup.com/350157/consumer-dram-shortages-extend-to-ddr2-products-with-contract-prices-expected-to-continue-rising-in-3q26

AI is useful as tool like he said, unfortunately these days in many organisations it is used as a replacement rather than a tool.

His conclusion was that as AI tools get more capable, the people who actually understand how systems work become more valuable, not less — because someone still has to review, maintain, and take responsibility for what the tools produce.

Humans still need to learn how to code.

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