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Re:Marc Andreessen on productivity, scheduling, reading habi... by cstejerean on Sunday September 20, 2020 @07:37PM (#24538357)
I need a service to summarize pop non-fiction books in some similar way, cut out all the bullshit and leave the perhaps blog length substance and list of references.

I can’t stand where a good 1/3 to 1/2 of the book is spent on trying to convince me to read the book, extolling the benefits I’ll get from reading it. I don’t need to be sold on it, I already wasted the money for the book, now all I want to do is avoid also wasting time on filler.

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Re:Marc Andreessen on productivity, scheduling, reading habi... by Axsuul on Sunday September 20, 2020 @08:07PM (#24538510)
Derek Sivers has good summaries on some of these: https://sive.rs/book
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Re:Marc Andreessen on productivity, scheduling, reading habi... by andrewingram on Sunday September 20, 2020 @08:01PM (#24538486)
That’s what Blinkist is, isn’t it?
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Re:Marc Andreessen on productivity, scheduling, reading habi... by chubot on Sunday September 20, 2020 @09:21PM (#24538881)
I've never actually used this, but I remember the story from a few days ago from a guy who's doing exactly that?

https://durmonski.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24469292

If you use it, tell us how it is :)

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Re:Marc Andreessen on productivity, scheduling, reading habi... by jfim on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:24AM (#24540100)
I used getabstract[0] in the past, where they give you a five page summary of the entire book. After reading a lot of them though, you start realizing a lot of business books are rather full of fluff.

[0] https://www.getabstract.com/en/

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Re:Marc Andreessen on productivity, scheduling, reading habi... by turtleturtle on Monday September 21, 2020 @09:46AM (#24543337)
I agree, there's a lot of fluff in business/productivity/self-improvement books. They're repetitive and often refer to the same decade old studies. I've also found that I need to be in the proper state of mind for a message to sink in. Maybe the regurgitation helps but I should reread a good book instead.
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