Skip to the good part

Life is short. It's OK to pull a TL;DR. Skim the boring memoir, generic romantasy and BookTok fluff. Why draw out a yawn?

- Kritika Kapoor

For once, we're siding with a CEO dude-bro. Nikesh Arora, head of the cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, recently admitted that he doesn't read entire books. He just skims the summary. "Why would I read 500 pages to distil 10?" he asked. It was a statement designed to trigger Book Twitter. And it did. Users called him lazy, anti-intellectual, and everything wrong with hustle culture. But hear us out... he's not entirely wrong.

Think about the last book you genuinely regretted finishing. The one with clunky prose and one-dimensional characters, or that murder mystery you solved before Chapter 3. That wasn't just ₹300 down the drain, it was hours of your life. Time that could have been spent on a nap, therapy, or a nice spell of doomscrolling.