In this day and age where almost everything works instantly, we can say that we also need the same for reading. If only we could read a bulk of reading materials and get its essence in no time, that’s probably what we’re going to do.

However, the best we can do is probably find a summary or the gist of a given material to see if it is interesting enough to spend our time consuming the whole piece.

But the main question is, how does one even write a summary from written material, such as academic texts?