Well, it's like having an abstract of a paper. Which is a good point -- ideally the authors themselves would provide the summary. Still, you certainly need summ

Well, it's like having an abstract of a paper. Which is a good point -- ideally the authors themselves would provide the summary. Still, you certainly need summaries! I'd say the only time summaries could be a bad thing is for fiction, where you don't want to give things away. For non-fiction giving things away is whole point. :)