For the books I love and want to read over and over, physical. For the books I want to read once and maybe reference from time to time, digital all the way. My e-reader makes digital books a breeze to read, and I'm actually at the point where it's 5GB of storage isn't enough for my library.
Essentially, you cut the pdf/text file up into chunks, process it to embeddings, then ask the AI questions and it responds with the relevant segments of the book
As someone in their 30's who didn't take care of my teeth for a while, I'm going to have to second this recommendation. It will save you a lot of grief down the road.
I think your best bet in this case is google drive. Most people have a google account, and if they don't, I believe it's possible to set it up in a way that it will let them upload anyway. I don't think you're getting out of the account requirement, outside of you setting up an anonymous ftp server in a vps or something.
Except, what it produces is very similar or identical to some copyrighted works, licensed under the LGPL, like in this case. You don't have to copy a whole program to plagiarize someone
I think this largely boils down to the time scales required. A person copying your work has a minimum amount of time it takes them to do that, even when it's just copy and paste. An LLM can copy thousands of different developer's code, for instance, and completely launder the license. That's not ok. Why would we allow machines to commit fraud when we don't allow people to?
Lemmy by default will federate with all instances if you don't put instances in the "Allowed Instances" section. I've found, it's easier to federatte with all instances and ban the ones you don't want. Otherwise, you effectively use a whitelist to federate.
And this is why you password protect your ssh keys