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Good lord, at this point just drone off in front of a Netflix show. How bad has it gotten that you even suggest that one can "forget what happened chapters earlier" ? This is not normal.

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This is hardly that strange, life gets in the way for many of us. I too have many times wished for an easy way to recap a book I've had to put down for a week or two - this is by no means an endorsement of how Amazon have done it here, but you are making incredibly arrogant assumptions about how others enjoy books.

That's been happening to me since before Netflix licked their first envelope. Have some sympathy for people born during memory shortages!

I'm an avid reader. I'm reading The Silmarillion right now. There have been countless times where a short summary of an area/character/etc has been helpful. Luckily, in this particular case, there are very good Tolkien fan dictionaries that serve well.

As another example, I read the Aubrey-Maturin series earlier this year. Many times I would have liked a quick summary of a previous voyage or of a political plotline or something.

Don't be so judgemental.

I'm an avid reader and I can assure you that it's very normal.

If you have ample free time and few commitments and/or you read very short pop fiction, I could see how you might believe this. But there's a vast world of very long and dense literature, and also...people have kids and a life that gets in the way. Combine the two and...well, I can see why this feature would be useful. :)

Forgetting what has happened earlier in a book you put down is very normal. Have you met your fellow humans?

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Quantum-Mechanics-David-...

What kind of books are you reading? You're telling on yourself (and very arrogant about it).

My thought exactly. Not all books are the same, and I'm willing to bet that GP is not reading the same books that I am, and not with the same goals.

Even Pynchon's lightest work yet, the newly released Shadow Ticket, has me immediately reading it a 2nd time for many details I missed the first time through. Imagine the arrogance of shaming a Pynchon reader assuming they should never need to check notes or refer back to earlier pages.

It's more telling about the current state of affairs than the person who commented. Forgetting things is part of life, move on, we don't need daddy bezos sucking 1.21 gigawatts per request to tell you that some side character drunk a beer 12 chapters ago so you can enjoy the joke you just missed.

I don't mind bezos using 1.21 gigawatts per request, as long as it's only for a very short time.

Brutal on the crest factor though, you'll definitely get a snotty phone call from your power company if you keep that up.

Maybe. Depends on how many capacitors you have.

We need to baby sit homoconsomators every step of the way or they get scared and confused

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