![]() Same with the pricing given on the Android app:īut here’s how it works, put simply: Blinkist costs a very reasonable $4.99/month or $49.99/year. If you look at the in-app purchases of Blinkist’s iOS app, you may be a bit confused: And along with (or instead of) reading, you can listen to the audio Blinkist has recorded of them reading out their summary. On the right is the text, which is nice and big. On the left, you see the main points (the “blinks”) that Blinkist has made for this book each one is just a few paragraphs long. Here’s an example of what it looks like when I’m reading a book ( Imagined Communities) on my computer: Here’s what it basically looks like:įor me personally, I just use the website on my desktop computer. These allow you to both read and listen to their book summaries, browse new books and create a library of titles. Yes - Blinkist offers both an iOS and Android app, along with a desktop (web browser) app. It’s up to the author of the book whether they want to give permission of Blinkist to add it, after all. Also, even if a book is extremely popular, that also doesn’t necessarily mean Blinkist will have it. Only having reasonably popular books is not really a downside of Blinkist, though, unless you want a summary for some specific book(s) that they may not have or ever have. Here are the latest 9 books added to Blinkist (taken 6 March 2020):Įach one of these books has made a reasonable splash, as with practically every book I looked up that Blinkist has. But as you’d expect, you are only going to find reasonably popular books on Blinkist - they are not going to summarize a book with only a couple of reviews on Amazon. Thus, of the existing 3,000+ books on Blinkist and the 40 new ones being added each month, you’ll see a very wide range of books. Here’s the category list from Blinkist’s website: There are loads of different categories of books that Blinkist will summarize. However, while you won’t necessarily find every book you’re ever interested in on Blinkist, you’ll certainly get a very wide range of books in Blinkist. What kind of books are on Blinkist?īeing that Blinkist writes summaries manually and that’s a time-consuming job, they can only ever cover a fraction of all the new books being released each week (as mentioned above, they add around 40 new titles each month). So there is no automation going on here, and Blinkist’s summaries are the result of Blinkist’s employees doing the hard work of checking out the latest new books and book recommendations, reading them and making bullet points of the main points, and then rewriting the book so that it’s condensed into a 15-minute-long version. We collaborate directly with authors as well as combing bestseller lists, new releases and recommendations to find the most intriguing books, which our expert readers distill into short Blinks, fact-checked and quality assured by Blinkist editors. You may be wondering, as I had been, if this was some kind of AI/machine-learning algorithm that summarizes books automatically. How does Blinkist generate summaries of books? ![]() ![]() So there are plenty of people who have found value with Blinkist. Over 13 million users have joined Blinkist and their app had been nominated by Apple as one of the best apps in the App Store. That allows you to take in the main points of a wide range of books without spending dozens or hundreds of hours of reading.Ĭurrently, as of March 2020, Blinkist has over 3,000 titles in their book library, with 40 new titles added each month. That’s where Blink comes in: with Blink, you get roughly 15-minute-long text and audio summaries of a wide variety of books. You often just want to be able to absorb the main points and lessons of a book without spending hours, days and perhaps weeks reading it on and off. Moreover, it can be frustrating that a lot of books can tend to drag on and over-explain crucial points. Many of us want to read a lot of books - there are those who claim to read 1 book a week, or even 1 book a day - but we don’t have time. What is Blinkist?īlinkist is a book summary service for busy people. If you already know everything about Blinkist and just want to hear what I think of it, my opinion is that Blinkist is a great service, and if you like the sound of it, you should sign up for it. Based in Berlin, this is a company that began in 2012 and has since been on a pretty steady growth curve:Īs an avid reader myself, I was quite curious about Blinkist. Have you ever wished that you could read a condensed version of a book with just the key points? If so, Blinkist (link opens in a new window) will be of interest to you. Click here to visit the latest Blinkist website (2021)
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