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Do not build this. It is a rights problem wearing software.

The summaries are written and licensed under agreements with publishers. Generating your own from a book you own is a copyright question you would not enjoy, and distributing them is one you would enjoy less. The software here is trivial; the permission is the product.

WHAT TO DO INSTEAD
- Keep it if you actually listen. If you have not opened it this month, that is the answer
- Consider a library card. Most give free access to audiobooks and full texts, which is the thing the summaries are a substitute for

WHAT YOU CAN BUILD, AND SHOULD

**A record of what you have actually read**, which is more useful than a shelf of summaries and is entirely yours:
- Books read with dates, format, and whether you finished
- Your own notes and highlights, imported from an e-reader's clippings file or typed
- A daily resurfacing email: a few old highlights, chosen by weighting towards things not seen recently. That habit is what actually moves something you read into something you remember, and it costs nothing
- Search across every highlight and note with FTS5
- Export as Markdown in one command

That is a weekend, it is covered in more detail under Readwise elsewhere in this catalogue, and it addresses the real problem — which is not lacking summaries, it is forgetting the books you did read.

THE HONEST NOTE
A fifteen-minute summary is a reasonable way to decide whether to read something and a poor substitute for having read it. Building a machine to produce more of them is optimising the wrong end.

THE ONE-LINE VERSION
The licence is the product. Build the thing that makes your own reading stick instead.