How To Get AI To Read A Book For You
If you’ve ever wanted to read a book, but you’ve never had the time to actually read it, you can have AI basically read it for you.
You can upload a PDF to the AI, and then whatever you’re using the AI for will have that knowledge.
So let’s say you give it a marketing book, and then you use AI for marketing.
Well, now it has basically read that book for you and can apply it to that skill.
Now, this isn’t going to work for everything.
Like soccer, for example.
You can’t just upload a soccer book and magically become good at soccer.
But for stuff you can actually do online, like marketing, writing, coding, sales, research, content, or strategy, you don’t always have to read the whole book yourself.
AI can basically read it for you and help you use it.
Now, don’t do this with important books.
Because if a book is actually important, and it’s actually good, then yeah, you should probably read it yourself and properly use it.
But if it’s just one of those books where your friend says:
“You should read this, it’s good.”
And you’re like:
“Yeah, I kind of want to read it, but I also don’t really want to read it.”
Then give that book to AI.
Have it summarize it.
Have it pull out the useful parts.
And have it apply the ideas to whatever that book was meant to help you with.
And for best results, you can use this prompt:
Act as my book-reading assistant.
I’m going to upload a book or PDF.
I don’t just want a normal summary.
I want you to read it and help me use the ideas for what I’m working on.
First, give me a simple summary of the book.
Then tell me the most important ideas, lessons, and frameworks.
Then tell me how I can actually use those ideas for this specific skill or goal:
[INSERT SKILL OR GOAL]
Do the following:
1. Summarize the book in simple words.
2. Pull out the best ideas.
3. Tell me what parts are actually useful.
4. Tell me what parts are probably not worth caring about.
5. Show me how to apply the book to my goal.
6. Give me examples of how I could use the ideas.
7. Give me a short action plan based on the book.
My goal is:
[INSERT GOAL]
I want to use this book for:
[INSERT WHAT YOU WANT HELP WITH]
Give me the answer in this format:
Simple summary:
Best ideas:
Useful lessons:
What to ignore:
How to use this for my goal:
Examples:
Action plan:
So if you have a book you kind of want to read, but know you probably won’t, just give it to AI.
It’s not perfect.
But it’s way better than pretending you’re going to read it and then never opening it.