In the case of a novel, or even certain text books, the author relies on the reader not jumping ahead. Especially murder mysteries and those kind of genres. There are artistic reasons for that, and it can wreck the work.

In my experience, AI summaries often miss points or misrepresent work. There is a human element to reading a well written novel. An AI will miss some of the subtleties and references.

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squigz 3 days ago | parent [-]

But if I want to jump ahead and read the last page of a book first, is it reasonable for an author to tell me I can't do that?

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nephihaha 3 days ago | parent [-]

From an artistic point of view, yes it is. It's a bit like doing a crossword with the answers in big letters next to it... It destroys the point.

	▲	DennisP 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I agree but for some reason, there are people who enjoy doing that. I think they should be allowed to do as they like. In any case, Amazon claims this feature is spoiler-free and that would be easy to implement. It likely works by feeding the book into an LLM context, and they could simply feed in the portion you've already read.