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by dbtc 972 days ago
> If that exists, why would anyone buy the book?

Because (if the book affords it), reading can be a form of psychic traveling. A reader enters an altered state of consciousness, lives in the world of the book, and comes back changed.

A summary of the information and 'plot points' would seem like a replacement only for those who have never really been absorbed in reading a book.