Morning Coffee – 26 May 2025

by Nate Hoffelder

After a decade of running The Digital Reader, Nate is a veteran web publisher with experience in design, maintenance, recovery, and troubleshooting. What little he doesn't know, he can learn.

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May 26, 2025

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

The Chicago Sun Times published a summer reading list with 10 books on it which did not exist (an AI hallucinated them, LOL).
Mozilla is shutting down the bookmarking slash read later service Pocket.
Wonder what authors think about AI? Check out Bookbub’s survey.
Ariane Peveto compares the various AI-powered editing tools.
Is anyone having problems with Gumroad (the white-label retail service) not working? The reason I ask is that I heard from a disgruntled user at Balticon this past weekend who had been trying to get a bug fixed for months. but nothing was happening because the staff had left.

P.S. If you are going to ConCarolinas next weekend, be sure to find me in the dealers room.

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