You might underestimate the amount of pulp paperbacks that have been printed over the years. Quite often these are just a single step above AI slop.
replySure, and it infests the little free 'libraries' you see scattered around the neighborhood and often the shelves in the Goodwill, but a good used bookstore and a good public library system will do a bit of filtering on that. These places aren't firehoses.
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