Loved the article! > Here’s one example. If your mental model of reading is “transmit facts into my head”, then reading an AI summary of something might seem l

Loved the article! > Here’s one example. If your mental model of reading is “transmit facts into my head”, then reading an AI summary of something might seem like a more efficient way to get that task done. Once I tried one of the services where instead of audiobooks, you listen to the books' summaries. It actually makes at least a bit of a sense for certain genres of non-fiction like productivity books, which tend to be quite padded out and the ideas can actually be effectively summarized in a much shorter frame. But I hated it and my knowledge retention was very low. Plus, most of the books cannot be summarized in a way that does not hurt their depth. By definition, you can't go very deep with a summary.