Read Non-fiction Books In A Blink
August 15, 2014
While it is easier than ever to access and read books, the act of reading still takes time. An even bigger issue is selecting what to read in the onslaught of digital media. User reviews help, especially for fiction books. What do you do, however, if you want unbiased summaries of non-fiction books? Those are still in short supply, because the first half of book summaries are taken up by accolades and then the text’s meat is too short to gauge the book.
What if you could you get useful summaries in the blink of an eye? Blinkist is the solution then! Blinkist is a service to help people digest non-fiction book reviews without relying on academic databases or subjective insights:
“Blinks are powerful bites of insight from outstanding nonfiction. You can read a blink in less than two minutes, so with each book made up of about eight blinks, you can cover the work’s key insights in 15 minutes.”
Blinkest’s book blinks are 100 percent original, they claim, and are not meant to replace books. The service is supposed to help people determine what books they want to read further and also save them time. It encourages learning and satisfies a person’s curiosity about a book’s content. Fulfilling the requirements of most book applications these days, Blinkest is available on all mobile devices.
Blinkest makes the academic world more consumer friendly. Academic databases, such as Ebsco and Elsevier, will not like the new competition. Academic databases are already expensive, offering a cheaper alternative stab at their profits. Blinkest needs to venture into academic journals next.
Whitney Grace, August 15, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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