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> reading summaries of certain books

Careful with this. You have to trust that the summary is correct. Which, as it turns out, isn't as foolproof as one might hope for.

It turns out that a sizeable percentage of human reviewers and condensers of information just make stuff up. And if you're just consuming the summary of a work, how would you know?



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