When I first heard of Blinkist, a service that breaks down recent nonfiction books to easily digestible snippets and audio, I was afraid it would turn out to be some machine-learning-driven ...

Blinkist, the Berlin-based startup that distills key insights from non-fiction books into nugget-sized summaries, has today launched its app globally. It is now available on iOS and the web. “With ...

Ever wanted to read a book without, you know, actually reading a book? Well, this is the dream that Blinkist sells. If you believe its advertising, the company condenses down entire non-fiction books ...

Blinkist is an app that aims to solve a problem I thought only I had: It summarizes thick nonfiction books into digestible summaries that take 15 minutes to read, as opposed to days or weeks. It seems ...

Whenever I pass through the Smart Thinking section of a bookshop, I invariably think of the Italian writer and publisher Roberto Calasso. Calasso, who died in 2021, was an author of many ...

If you want to read a lot of important nonfiction books, but just don’t have the time, Blinkist can help. It’s an app that simplifies and spits out key points from important nonfiction books. Remember ...

Blinkist promises to condense the ‘key takeaways’ of popular nonfiction into short summaries. But does it work? And what is the point? There is a moment in The Matrix when Keanu Reeves is lying in a ...

Do you own a copy of The Lean Startup? Have you actually read it, or is it in your bedroom or ebook reader, barely touched? This is where Berlin-based startup Blinkist comes in. Aimed squarely at ...