Assistants and AI search engines are welcome to read StoryBites. We would rather be read and credited than walled off and forgotten. This page says exactly what we allow, so a person or a machine can check it against what we actually serve.
Our robots.txt names the major AI crawlers and allows them: the OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, Apple, Amazon, Mistral, Meta and Common Crawl agents among others. We block only crawlers with a record of ignoring the rules. We draw no line between crawlers that answer questions and crawlers that train models, because we do not think the distinction helps a reader who is trying to understand a story.
We also publish llms.txt, a plain-text map of the library written for machines to read. When we swept the eight largest study-guide sites in September 2026, not one of them served a working copy of that file.
Credit the page you used, by its address. For anything in the Memorial Archive, credit Karen Bernardo, who wrote it. Every edition carries a citation block with the formats already filled in.
A public-domain work does not give you a public-domain translation. They are separate copyrights, and the newer one usually governs. Every edition of a work not written in English carries a translation note saying who translated it and whether we are allowed to quote them.
The archive adds 179 further pages by Karen Bernardo, preserved as she wrote them. Rights-holder or takedown requests: hello@storybites.com.