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I've had an idea rolling around in my head for a while now - a mix of wikipedia, spotify, and blinkist. The idea would be book summaries, in written and audio f
by tenaciousDaniel 8y ago
I've had an idea rolling around in my head for a while now - a mix of wikipedia, spotify, and blinkist. The idea would be book summaries, in written and audio form, for both entire books and chapter-by-chapter. They could be submitted by anyone, and ranked/upvoted in terms of accuracy and quality. Ad/subscription revenue would be shared with content creators.
- alanbernstein 8y agoInteresting, with a few different levels of detail, readers could get into a book in a "progressive refinement" sort of way. You could stop after your desired level of detail is reached, rather than stopping after chapter 3 because it got boring.
- tenaciousDaniel 8y agoYes definitely. Or choose particular chapters that you think would be relevant for you.
- cwingrav 8y agoI wonder how far away we are for this being automated? I'm sure it could be done now, but accuracy, especially for more dense and difficult books, would be lacking.
- tenaciousDaniel 8y agoI'd imagine there are some cases that would be fairly difficult for automation. Take a philosophy book, for example. I have no idea how automation would provide an overview of what happens in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Some written material requires going beyond the text and explaining the ideas themselves.