Tried Claude's 'Ephemeral' Data Preparation Approach and Hit Many Pitfalls

I spent the weekend messing around, disassembling an old book from home to feed it through a scanner, trying to simulate Anthropic's "Panama Project." The paper cutter jammed, the scanner misidentified pages, and after three hours of struggling, I only managed less than 50 pages. Looking back at that TMTPost report where Anthropic processed millions of books, all I can say is—there’s a Pacific Ocean between industrial-grade and consumer-grade efforts.