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by benjaminl 3012 days ago
Then you will love blinkist.com, they summarize nonfiction book so that you can read or listen to them in 15 minutes.

But you might find that as other commentators point out, without the original packaging, although the summarized book contains all of the insights of the original, it is hard to retain the information.

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Speed readers usually say the same thing, you might be able to read and parse the text faster but your brain still needs the same time to process and assimilate the content, so you'll instead only end up with a buffer overflow of parsed but unprocessed text.