Has anyone tried the service blinkist?
I am hearing this advertised on a number of progressive podcasts. It's apparently a service that condenses non-fiction books into 15 minute summaries. I'm wondering if anyone on here has tried it, and what your takeaways were. Is there value to these condensed books? Or is the lack of detail and nuance bound to lower our overall understanding of these topics?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Ohferpetessake...read a synopsis so you can (sort of) sound intelligent, although a phoney) or read the book as written, or just move on
AnneWimsey
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Dec 10, 2018
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I havent yet but as someone who takes in 80% audio entertainment it sounds both a little shakey yet promising simultaneously lol. Id like something like that a lot more if it were at least an hour long if not maybe 2, and included long form interviews with the author. I don't trust many people to accurately summarize for me on that small a scale though. It's probably interesting as is, but full of second hand conclusions, which can be a mixed bag.
Wurlitzer
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Dec 10, 2018
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@Humanistheathen yeah I dunno it seems like it might be useful if you needed a lot of random small talk material for some sort of intellectual dinner party for instance but yeah you probably can learn in more detail from podcasts. You've got your pick of the short chunks on Stuff you should know to tons of 2-3 hour interviews with authors n musicians n comedians by Rogan or Maron, all the way up to the 4-6 hour epics of hardcore history.
I don't like it. A writer spends time researching and writing to be summarized?? Ugh. I can't say i'm surprised though.
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Dec 10, 2018
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