OK, so yeah, there’s

https://wikisummaries.org

But it’s neither very good nor comprehensive. I think a user-generated Wiki that’s extremely extensive in its number of entries (like Goodreads) and has deep chapter by chapter break downs, user discussion boards, questions, themes etc. would be extreeeemely useful. I imagine it covering every kind of books: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, etc. or anything with an ISBN#.

I would like this personally because a lot of times I’d like to discuss themes in books that are a bit too obscure to get many replies to on a sub like this. If you are posting directly to the specific book’s wiki page you know you’ll be getting feedback from people also thinking about that book.

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    10 months ago

    Soon enough, I imagine you’ll be able to ask an AI for a summary of whatever book you want (barring copyright issues). In whatever level of detail you specify, from very brief, to very in-depth.

    The Wheel of Time is an amazing book series, but I just don’t quite have the time to finish it. ChatGPT, can you create an abridged version of the Wheel of Time, that’s 1/3 the length of the original series?
    That project might take a team of human authors multiple years to complete. But an AI could potentially finish that in, what, minutes or hours?
    Scary.