Morning Coffee – 28 July 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.

July 28, 2025

Here are a few stories to read this morning.

  • Kobo ereaders will soon be getting Instapaper integration to replace the Pocket support it lost earlier this year.
  • It’s sad that we should even have to say that WeTransfer won’t be training AI using the content it stores for clients.
  • Rhode Island passed a right to read law earlier this month.
  • Much to no one’s surprise, ChatGPT ignores the bot scraping rules found in your website’s Robots.txt file.
  • Victoria Strauss delves into the contract changes following the purchase of 5 genre magazines.
  • The EFF explains how an ongoing court battle over AI could impact one of the few aspects of moral rights in US copyright law, the right of attribution.

Hi, I'm Nate.

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