Love this Nitin. Definitely going to be starting to use a similar approach to work out which books I should read. Also terrified about putting my own ones in there to see if they are deemed worthy enough of mine or anybody else's time. 😂
Really? You think reading summary through this AI will help in better retainage..? Reading a book is an experience , you read you absorb by repetition.. You think while on the way .. It is like finishing a movie at 2x. You will understand it like any other person who watched it at 1x but the whole experience will be very different
We had a getAbstract Company Account here in Germany. Unfortunately my company decided not to extend the subscription. gA was a great source for business books and the summaries. The best feature was/is „Send-to-kindle“.
So I created a „mega-Prompt“ to do the same with AI. The results are nearly as good as from gA, but they are really long, lots of pages.
I‘ll try your approach with some PDFs I got with buying the book. Will post my findings here.
And btw: I‘m just preparing a MacMini as local AI-Server and will build a workflow which automates Chunking/translating/summarizing/ePub/send to kindle. Will work for books an audio/video transcripts. This is my pre-retirement project (I‘m 64 now) and the start of my small side hustle :-)
I initially thought the same, and another reason was the inability to finish books. So I subscribed to book summaries available online. That only helped in knowing what the book was all about. Now I am back to reading the whole book and then synthesising what and how I want it. Often using AI. This helps me understand and remember better.
Excellent article, as it carries the vibe that AI opens up choices to take....I still love turning pages by myself first. Only use NotebookLM for a deep connectedness. It's a short-term productivity loss, yet gains for long-term strategic gain. Availability is always a factor, though.
I’m definitely going to try this. You’re right, most books are loaded with repetition and filler (even my own!😬). But that’s just the nature of the beast. Your method sounds like a great way to save loads of time and still get the info you need! Thanks very much!
It's a great article. But it only works properly if you can get a pdf of the book. What if that's not available?
Well, that’s the only issue.
But we have multiple options. We can download most books online, and many authors even share PDF versions when you buy their book.
However, if a book is not available in PDF or any similar format, this won’t work.
Excuse me for asking a potentially stupid question, where do you find technical books in PDF format?
You could always ask your AI that question; could be an interesting experiment
I will try that and let you know what I found.
Simple. Use Calibre and convert him!
I agree with the workflow and loved it, but I think the biggest mindset shift is realizing that finishing a book doesn’t equal learning.
Extracting and applying one idea beats reading 300 pages and forgetting everything. AI just forces us to confront that reality.
This explains why I kept reading more but remembered less.
Finally, I can say that it wasn’t that I was bad at reading, I was just reading without intent.
Thank you so much for writing this post. I will definitely use this workflow for reading from now on.
Love this Nitin. Definitely going to be starting to use a similar approach to work out which books I should read. Also terrified about putting my own ones in there to see if they are deemed worthy enough of mine or anybody else's time. 😂
Really? You think reading summary through this AI will help in better retainage..? Reading a book is an experience , you read you absorb by repetition.. You think while on the way .. It is like finishing a movie at 2x. You will understand it like any other person who watched it at 1x but the whole experience will be very different
Thanks for sharing, Nitin.
We had a getAbstract Company Account here in Germany. Unfortunately my company decided not to extend the subscription. gA was a great source for business books and the summaries. The best feature was/is „Send-to-kindle“.
So I created a „mega-Prompt“ to do the same with AI. The results are nearly as good as from gA, but they are really long, lots of pages.
I‘ll try your approach with some PDFs I got with buying the book. Will post my findings here.
And btw: I‘m just preparing a MacMini as local AI-Server and will build a workflow which automates Chunking/translating/summarizing/ePub/send to kindle. Will work for books an audio/video transcripts. This is my pre-retirement project (I‘m 64 now) and the start of my small side hustle :-)
I initially thought the same, and another reason was the inability to finish books. So I subscribed to book summaries available online. That only helped in knowing what the book was all about. Now I am back to reading the whole book and then synthesising what and how I want it. Often using AI. This helps me understand and remember better.
Excellent article, as it carries the vibe that AI opens up choices to take....I still love turning pages by myself first. Only use NotebookLM for a deep connectedness. It's a short-term productivity loss, yet gains for long-term strategic gain. Availability is always a factor, though.
I’m definitely going to try this. You’re right, most books are loaded with repetition and filler (even my own!😬). But that’s just the nature of the beast. Your method sounds like a great way to save loads of time and still get the info you need! Thanks very much!
Yes, faster learning! We need that! Bring it!
I will be interested to know what the process you describe says about my book, The Cognitive Revolution.
Appreciate you field-testing this stuff so we don't have to. 🤝