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From bestsellers to must-reads, books exemplify the benefits of reading, where you find comfort, knowledge, challenge, and inspiration. Let’s revisit what the famous author Margaret Fuller once said about reading– “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” Good reads in any field are the roads to a successful journey toward one’s desired destination and beyond.

You probably know by now that the AI models powering ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other chatbots are trained on seemingly infinite databases of published works, containing hundreds of millions of books, online articles, academic papers, and basically anything you can find on the internet. Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to…

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and relationships beat. She spent most of her pre-Lifehacker career covering media and politics for outlets like Us Weekly, CNN, The Daily Dot, Mashable, Glamour, and InStyle. In…