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Re:Ask HN: How do you balance reading books vs. articles by doc_gunthrop on Sunday December 06, 2020 @01:25PM (#25325384)
It's not uncommon for those types of books (as you mentioned, for example, Malcolm Gladwell) to come into being as a result of a series of blog posts.

A couple examples are Cal Newport and Mark Manson. Their books aren't bad, but they could be reduced to probably 1/3 of their actual length without much loss of insight.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you balance reading books vs. articles by mathnmusic on Sunday December 06, 2020 @02:21PM (#25325899)
Blinkist and similar tools are a good enough solution for this. But those are locked up behind a paywall. I've been importing links to book summaries (along with authors' TED talks, podcasts etc) in LearnAwesome.org (my open-source project) so that when looking up a book, user can easily discover summaries,interviews,talks covering the same ideas in a more preferable format.
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