OK, so yeah, there’s
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.
Not what you’re looking for, but this is why I started my book spoiler blog.
I read a lot of thrillers, so many that I couldn’t remember what happened in books I read 1-2 years ago. I’d search online and could sometimes find summaries, but not consistently. I didn’t want to read the book again, though, so I started writing down the endings to each thriller I read.
I’m very behind on posting but have a pretty decent backlog, and recently gained a guest poster to help me cover more ground.
It really is a lot of work to write a good book summary. I have started writing summaries of non-fiction books on my blog. It actually took me months to read 2 books, write the summary and refine the final text.
You could call it “tldr”
…Because sparknotes already fills that niche? As does wikipedia?
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.make it.
Solved by chatgpt now
Anyone downvoting me should try it. I asked it to summarize up to what I’ve read in a book I haven’t picked up in months and it did the thing.
Did it do it correctly? I tried it on multiple different books and some were sort of right and some were 100% wrong.
It did but I only tried one
This tracks with what I know about chatgpt. It will often correctly pull information and give it to you but other times it will outright fabricate things in attempt to answer your question. There was a story last year about a lawyer who didn’t understand that chatgpt will do this false information thing and they used it to try and find relevant legal rulings, and chatgpt made up a legal ruling that the lawyer actually used in a court. The judge did not take kindly to that.
I have often wanted something like this when I don’t like a book enough to finish it, but I want to know what happens. You can find those answers on Wikipedia sometimes for books big enough to have their own page, but that’s not the norm for all books
Summaries are nice but what I’d really like is some website for tagging published books the same way AO3 allows authors to tag their works.
It would just let me find the kind of books I like much faster and easier.
There are some places that do this like Recaptains and similar sites but they are focused more on ya and booktok type books. I wish Goodreads or something would add a summary feature that could be edited by fans
Nobody wants to do your homework for you for free dude.
I haven’t had homework in over decade. I just think it would be a good supplement for what I’ve read.
I haven’t had homework in over decade.
I’m afraid at this point your teacher is no longer going to accept it.
I haven’t had homework in over decade.
I’m afraid at this point your teacher is no longer going to accept it.