Voracious readers: what’s your method for getting through verbose non-fiction? You know, the ones that are 75% filler/repetition.
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I asked a few folks a similar question recently in a slack spun out of . recommended looking to 'book-pipe' queues of favorite bloggers for curation: faingezicht.com/book_pipe/ , meltingasphalt.com/what-im-readin, meaningness.com/subcultures/co
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suggests that sometimes commentary-style books about books sometimes supersede the books themselves. Also recommended gwern.net/Book-reviews. also suggested favorite bloggers like .
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I've seen few summarizer sites that I'll probably be trying varying from individuals to commercial:
sipreads.com
whatyouwilllearn.com/book-shelf/
getabstract.com/en/
actionablebooks.com/en-ca/
durmonski.com
sivers.org/book ()
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Looks like the creator of commoncog.com/blog/tag/books/ has seen this () -- so I'll make another note that his term "branch books" is helpful to classify certain of these type of books that benefit from summary. Thanks Cedric!
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