Morning Coffee – 16 February 2026

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.

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February 16, 2026

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

An “author” used AI to write 200 novels last year, and sells 50,000 copies.
Robin Phillips posted a review of WriterDeck, the third-party OS which turns a laptop into a word processor.
Ugh – it just got easier to integrate a plagiarism machine with a WordPress website.
Anthropic didn’t just pirate books to feed the Halucinator 9000; it apparently also bought some. (paywalled, sorry) (I literally just thought up that sobriquet, LOL)

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