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Josh Stark
@0xstark.eth
considering trying out blinkist or another "paid summaries of books" service have you used them? what were they useful for? what are they bad at?
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Josh Stark
@0xstark.eth
anyone tried getAbstract? https://www.getabstract.com/en/ ?
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Franzi
@franzi
I didn’t enjoy Blinkist. It made many books sound the same and most felt like very generic/ extremely high level summaries to me. The content didn’t “stick” and after a few books I wasn’t interested in it anymore.
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Nat Emodi
@emodi
bad at communicating the excitement / intrigue / mystery / discovery that good authors convey. another reason interviews are a lot more compelling
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
I usually just look up talks by the author on YouTube, a hack I learned from @barmstrong
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Shreeda
@shreeda
Blinkest is pretty mid. I honestly only use it because I accidentally bought the year-long subscription. When I use it, I use it for help falling asleep lol...
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@tim
i found podcasts with the authors to be much better than blinkist - having someone spend 60m describing their thesis >>> having a 4 min recap that doesn't go into any nuance
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Uncle Davo
@uncledavo
Tried Shortform, but podcasts/YouTube talk with author before deciding to dive into the original book is my main move now
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Ben
@benersing
Depends on your goal. I find it helpful as one of several inputs when trying to get ‘just smart enough’ on a topic. In general 99% of information in the world is 99% the same. Book summary platforms make that really evident, quickly.
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borodutch
@farcasteradmin.eth
blinkist is the best, on a par with four-minute-books
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