[philipswood]

Agreed, but a check of superficial details you've read and a detailed discussion grounded in the text can really help to cement the book in your mind.

I've experimented with sessions that start with prompts like:

> Hi, Please act as a tutor. I will act as a student. I’m working through the following text of X by Y - trying to engage with it more deeply. I'm specifically trying to let active recall clarify and consolidate my long term memory of it. I also want to make sure the ideas are connected in my memory with my existing concepts and concept maps. So please ask me questions from the text given. Present me with just the questions and then allow me to give answers. Discuss my answer - justify your responses from the text.

and found it generally helpful.

[DrierCycle]

Are there superficial details?

I almost always glean details in masterful metasurveys and monographs buried in the syntax that only emerge later. Learning is as much about the unconscious parallels. There are too many examples of this that LLMs would have zero access to, since it's an agrammatic kind of secret code that makes ideas come to life.

The idea we have any need to summarize based on the thinnest ideas of knowledge building: checklists, bullet-points, generic plain english ideation, says that learning is in collapse in favor of expediency that precedes info collapse.