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A good proportion of nonfiction books could be their blurbs. This is pretty common. We use too many words in a lot of contexts.
by api 1y ago
A good proportion of nonfiction books could be their blurbs. This is pretty common. We use too many words in a lot of contexts.
- iammjm 1y agoNobody would pay 10-20$ for a blurb. So let’s somehow make it to about 200 pages and we’re good.
- api 1y agoIf we were rational we would pay more for the blurb if it’s insight was original and high quality.
- latexr 1y agoFor those books, I realised that a much better use of time is to search YouTube for a talk by the author. They’ll explain everything that’s remotely interesting about the book’s thesis. Everything else in the book is typically anecdote after anecdote.
- stavros 1y agoI hate this so much, I made a website against it: https://www.thesummarist.net https://www.thesummarist.net