Would it get them to actually read books if what they’re getting is easy-to-read summaries? I would think measuring someone’s reading level and giving them a list of suggestions based on their tastes would work better. They do that for schoolkids, I don’t know why it shouldn’t be done for adults too. No AI necessary.
I’m an adult learner of a foreign language, and I wasn’t able to read for fun until I had finished three semesters of grad school in (and on) the language. Before that, my reading level was so low that kids books for that level weren’t interesting (I was actually really excited to try out the Percy Jackson series, because I missed it the first time in English, but it was way too complicated).
It’s an edge case, I’ll grant you, but I would have loved something like this at that reading level. I would have preferred to pay a real person to do it so as not to lose out on important context and make sure the wording wasn’t weird, but I didn’t find anyone willing to do it
I dont think this really qualifies as a summary, this is re-writing an entire novel in simpler language. There is definitely going to be some meaning and intent lost in that process, but not as much as if it was never read it at all.
I can think of a handful of books that I bounced off of and resorted to looking through the Coles Notes instead.
I think implying it’s the same book is still kind of an issue.
If you’ve read “Wishbone Presents Gullfur’s Travels”, you haven’t read Gulliver’s Travels, and you have some huge blind spots about what the actual work is.
it is an answer. It exemplifies your lack of imagination and logical thinking. It shows how you aren’t reading other people’s responses to your ignorance, and your distaste to learning about this topic.
Would it get them to actually read books if what they’re getting is easy-to-read summaries? I would think measuring someone’s reading level and giving them a list of suggestions based on their tastes would work better. They do that for schoolkids, I don’t know why it shouldn’t be done for adults too. No AI necessary.
I’m an adult learner of a foreign language, and I wasn’t able to read for fun until I had finished three semesters of grad school in (and on) the language. Before that, my reading level was so low that kids books for that level weren’t interesting (I was actually really excited to try out the Percy Jackson series, because I missed it the first time in English, but it was way too complicated).
It’s an edge case, I’ll grant you, but I would have loved something like this at that reading level. I would have preferred to pay a real person to do it so as not to lose out on important context and make sure the wording wasn’t weird, but I didn’t find anyone willing to do it
I dont think this really qualifies as a summary, this is re-writing an entire novel in simpler language. There is definitely going to be some meaning and intent lost in that process, but not as much as if it was never read it at all.
I can think of a handful of books that I bounced off of and resorted to looking through the Coles Notes instead.
I think implying it’s the same book is still kind of an issue.
If you’ve read “Wishbone Presents Gullfur’s Travels”, you haven’t read Gulliver’s Travels, and you have some huge blind spots about what the actual work is.
Okay, but I still don’t see how this will get people reading books.
That Library visit was mostly wasted on you, wasn’t it?
Insulting me is not an answer.
it is an answer. It exemplifies your lack of imagination and logical thinking. It shows how you aren’t reading other people’s responses to your ignorance, and your distaste to learning about this topic.
If I lack the ability to think logically, wouldn’t that make you the ableist by belittling someone with a debilitating intellectual disability?
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Yes, because you’re an ableist bigot.