Comment by satvikpendem

> There will only be ebooks and on-device AI assistants will read it to you on demand.

Honestly I read (or rather, listen to) a lot of books already by getting the epubs onto my phone then using a very basic TTS to read it out. Yes, they're definitely not as lifelike as even the most common AI TTS systems but they're good enough to listen to at high speed. Moon+ Reader is pretty good for Android, not sure about iOS.