Each book I read teaches me something new. I naturally reflect on how insights and learnings fit ...

Each book I read teaches me something new. I naturally reflect on how insights and learnings fit within my personal, current context. I can read a book again years later and take away something completely different from it, because I am in a different place.

A book summary by AI teaches me nothing.

The reading process is about my thinking blending with the author's thinking. When my own thinking isn't involved, and I'm not participating, the value gets lost.