Rob Ennals, who made this year's ACX book review contest site, has gathered reviews from earlier years into epubs.
Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
What would count as true or false
True: as of 2026-10-05 there is a published collection of epub files containing ACX book review contest entries from earlier years, compiled by Rob Ennals, and Ennals built the 2026 ACX book review contest site. Mostly true: the epubs exist and were made by Ennals, but a minor detail is off (for example they cover only some earlier years, or he co-built the site). Mostly false: the epubs exist but were compiled by someone else, or Ennals did not build the contest site and the epub part is only partly right. False: no such epub collection by Ennals existed as of that date, shown for example by the linked page being something else or by a correction from ACX.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (6)
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E1 Links For April 2026 Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander) · 23 April 2026 Own record
“Rob Ennals has created a site for viewing ACX book review contest entries (subreddit thread and discussion here).”
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E2 Links For April 2026 Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander) · 23 April 2026 Own record
“Rob Ennals has created a site for viewing ACX book review contest entries (subreddit thread and discussion here).”
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E3 ACX Review Archive ACX Review Archive (maintained by Rob Ennals) · 21 May 2026
“This site is maintained by Rob Ennals. Contact Rob if you find any issues with this site. Reviews are also available as ePub for offline reading.”
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E4 Download as ePub — ACX Review Archive | ACX Review Archive ACX Review Archive · 18 April 2026
“Download every year of Astral Codex Ten review contest entries as ePubs for Kindle, phone, tablet, or e-reader.”
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E5 robennals - Overview GitHub · 2 October 2026
“Site for reading ACX Reviews”
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E6 Choose Book Review Finalists 2026 Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander) · 3 June 2026 Own record
“This year, Rob Ennals has stepped up and built a fancy website that makes this easy.”
Reasoning
The ACX Review Archive says it is maintained by Rob Ennals and that its reviews are also available as ePub (E3). Its epub page offers every year of Astral Codex Ten review contest entries as ePubs (E4). Ennals' GitHub profile lists a repository described as a "Site for reading ACX Reviews" (E5), and ACX's 2026 finalists post says that this year he built the website used for the contest (E6, E1). Together these meet both parts of the true criterion.
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Scott Alexander, “Rob Ennals, who made this year's ACX book review contest site, has gathered reviews from earlier years into epubs.” (said 5 October 2026). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_a0bbc0573d65, method 0.1.0+8bea457b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a0bbc0573d65
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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