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Sobrief is another alternative, the written book summaries are free, audio versions cost. I think if you are after written summaries there is no need to pay. Sobrief is good, worth checking out.
Any device can do text-to-speech and on Apple devices you can also clone your voice and listen to yourself.
At this price it might be worth it… just.
The issue with these is that yes you can get the main point of books in like 10-15 minutes but it really doesn't sink in when you are going through multiple in a day.
This is accurate in my experience too. As far as I know, the typical brain thrives on connections/linking information. If you read a book, there are many opportunities for this to happen. Slim to no chance with bite sized chunks.
edit: having said that, apparently the brain also prefers chunking, or small bite sized info. So who knows.
I got bored of it after about a month, and exhausted the list of things I wanted to "read" and didn't want to go diving into other stuff.
I am no book reader. But have listened to some Audible. I feel that connection part is spot on, plus also some people are good story tellers.
E.g. many people hate this Audiobook/book by Healthy Brain, Happy Life Audiobook by Wendy Suzuki. I loved it because she read it as and talked about her life etc.
The problem is there's too much content in the world. And you'll never be able to read everything.
Think in terms choosing to read 500 things from one book or 500 best things from 10 different books.
Which one would you prefer?
I would prefer 1 best thing that I actually remember from one book than 10 things from 10 books where I forgot all of them. That was my issue.
@EBC: What's helped me out when trying to memorize content is anki and a slip box.
Anki makes much easier to memorize facts and a slip box makes it easier to find the right notes at the right times.
I mean anything is worth a try, right?
best things
Which of the 2.3 million blocks that make up the pyramid of giza is the best? The one at the top which is the most visible? The one at the base that bears the most weight?
@outlander: For the pyramid the one with the most weight.
But let's say you want to learn about typography as you're a web designer.
Sure you could try to learn everything about typography.
But as a web designer you don't need to know the history of each font.
By the time you do the person who learnt the most important things in web design will be a better web designer than you.
But this is based on incremental reading; designed by the same guy who made ankis algorithm.
Premium or Pro?
Take a guess
I'm guessing Premium and they're making a profit by reselling the account :p
Anyway to upgrade from premium to pro
Chatgpt can do the same now for free
not sure why you got downvoted, chatgpt can do this and this is very valid point
And how about all the extra task that we should do? such as finding the books and their files (if Chat GPT cannot find), giving the whole book text to the Chat GPT (if it can handle all at once), then writing the prompt and getting the summary.
I use ChatGPT daily, but for $5-10 we can access all summaries in this app, which is pretty good.
Any free vpn’s that do India? TunnelBear doesn’t have India
Urban VPN
For the people saying that chatgpt or notebooklm can do it as well - can chatgpt handle the whole length of the book (notebooklm can)? also, how do you know that the most valid points have been properly selected by the AI, in terms of creating a summary story, end-to-end, not just a bits of information here and there from the PDF (which is kind of what notebooklm does).
NotebookLM is probably better and free for books/PDFs?