Google Wants to Summarise Books You Won't Read

Google has decided that the primary barrier to reading is the actual reading part, expanding its book insights feature to over a million ebooks and rolling it out to the iOS app. Instead of wrestling with pesky plots, character development, and narrative arcs, users can now rely on algorithmic synopses to pretend they consumed bestsellers.

• Google Play Books book insights uses generative technology to break down complex texts, proving that humans would rather consume metadata than literature.
• The rollout covers more than a million titles, ensuring that no bestselling fiction is safe from being reduced to a bulleted list.
• By finally bringing the feature to iOS, Apple users can now also outsource their reading comprehension to Silicon Valley.

Read the original: Book insights in Google Play Books is now available in more than a million ebooks and in the iOS app.